Susannah George
Islamabad
Foreign correspondent covering Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education: George Washington University, BA in International Affairs
Susannah George is The Washington Post's Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief. She is a prize-winning journalist with deep experience in reporting from the Middle East, including assignments in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Tunisia during the Arab Spring and in Iraq on multiple tours.
She headed the Associated Press’s Baghdad bureau from 2015 to 2018, leading coverage of the prolonged battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
George is an Arabic speaker. She began her career as a producer and editor for National Public Radio and immediately before joining The Post covered national securi