The Atlantic has hired Nancy Youssef from The Wall Street Journal to be a staff writer.
Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world.
Youssef has a great knowledge of the Middle East. She was based in Baghdad during the Iraq War and later in Cairo, where she covered the broader Muslim world. Her reporting from Iraq focused on the everyday experience of Iraqis and how the U.S.’s military presence reshaped the country’s social and political dynamics.
Before joining the Journal, she was a reporter at Buzzfeed News, the Daily Beast, McClatchy Newspapers, the Detroit Free Press, and the Baltimore Sun.
A Washington, D.C.-native, she is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Georgetown University.
