Writer and field researcher working across Asia

I write about conflict, culture and political life across South Asia and the Middle East. My work is grounded in extended time on the ground—from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to Iraq and Pakistan—and combines field experience with long-form essay writing.

It focuses on how people live within systems of power, belief and history, and aims to produce work that is both intellectually rigorous and accessible to a general reader.

My reporting and documentary work has taken me across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and South Africa. I have presented and produced films for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV, and my work has received international recognition, including the Premio Luchetta Award for Reportage. I have also contributed to Emmy award-winning and BAFTA-nominated productions.

My writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian, the LA Review of Books and The White Review. I was awarded the Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize.

I am currently studying philosophy and history, and will undertake further academic work in international relations and political violence. My long-term project is to write a series of deeply reported, historically grounded books on cities and regions across Asia, exploring their political and cultural worlds.