The Financial Times has hired Abigail Hauslohner from the Washington Post to cover a new beat.
She will be covering the United States’ evolving relationships, policies and actions in the Middle East.
Hauslohner has been a Post national security reporter focused on Congress. In her 12 years at the newspaper, she has been a roving national correspondent, writing on topics ranging from immigration to political extremism and Guantanamo Bay, and has served as the Post’s Cairo bureau chief.
From 2007 through 2014, she was a Middle East correspondent, reporting on wars, revolutions and politics from Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Gaza, Afghanistan and beyond, first for Time magazine and then for the Post. She has reported from more than a dozen countries.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from Columbia University.
