{"id":7090,"date":"2025-09-24T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/?page_id=7090"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:15:02","slug":"akbar-shahid-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/akbar-shahid-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Akbar Shahid Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"7090\" class=\"elementor elementor-7090\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cce961f elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cce961f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bab9353\" data-id=\"bab9353\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d418eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2d418eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Akber-Shahid-Ahmed-rc7zk9o10ilyz97myt4in1pgy4f4isioey590btax4.jpg\" title=\"Akber Shahid Ahmed\" alt=\"Akber Shahid Ahmed\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27aa256 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"27aa256\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Akbar Shahid Ahmed<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d4eb4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d4eb4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akbar Shahid Ahmed is the Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for HuffPost, based in Washington, D.C. A native Pakistani, Akbar has reported from around the globe. He is presently writing a book on the Biden administration&#8217;s role in the Gaza war for W. W. Norton. Akbar won the 2025 Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Writing and a 2025 New York Press Club Award. He was also a 2024 finalist for the Livingston Award \u2014 American journalism\u2019s highest honor for reporters under the age of 35. In 2023, he was chosen for the East-West Center&#8217;s Korea-United States Journalists Exchange, and in 2022, he won a Boell Transatlantic Media Fellowship to spend the fall reporting in Poland and Lithuania. In 2019, Akbar became the first-ever Pakistani journalist to secure a press credential to report from Israel-Palestine, and was selected as part of the inaugural class of LGBTI fellows at the Atlantic Council. He regularly provides expert commentary for MSNBC, Al Jazeera English and Democracy Now!, and has also appeared on CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera Arabic, CTV News, WNYC and other outlets, as well as participated in panels organized by SXSW, Columbia University, the Truman Center for National Policy, the University of Southern California, the Stimson Center, the Project on Middle East Democracy, New York University, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Tulane University, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Atlantic Council, the Newseum Institute, the South Asian Journalists Association and others. Akbar is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied global affairs, served as an editor of the Yale Daily News and completed the Studies in Grand Strategy program. 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