Samaa Khullar

Samaa Khullar is a freelance journalist and fact-checker based in New York City. Her background is in investigative reporting, focusing on issues affecting Middle Eastern communities on the ground and in the diaspora. Her writing examines war, mass displacement, free speech, mass mobilizations, and protests.

Her works have been featured in New York Magazine, The Nation, Dazed, Teen Vogue, AJ+, BBC, New Lines Magazine, Salon, and L’Officiel USA.

Samaa holds a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School, where she was a Toni Stabile Investigative fellow and received the annual Editorial Writing Award.

She also attended New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she received a B.A. in Journalism and Middle Eastern Studies and won the Anna and Peter Zenger Award for Press Freedom.