Zahra Hankir
Professional Affiliation
Journalist & Author, Lebanon
Expert Bio
Zahra Hankir is a Lebanese journalist who writes about the cultures and communities of the Middle East. Her work has appeared in Conde Nast Traveller, The Rumpus, Times Literary Supplement, 惭肠厂飞别别苍别测鈥檚, Guernica Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Vice, BBC News, Al Jazeera English, Businessweek, Roads & Kingdoms, and Literary Hub, among other publications. She was awarded a Jack R. Howard Fellowship in International Journalism to attend the Columbia Journalism School and holds degrees in politics and Middle Eastern studies from the American University of Beirut and the University of Manchester, respectively. Her first book, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, was awarded the . She was a for the 2022 Popular Features award at One World Media and the 2022 Best Coverage of the MENA Region award at the Arab and Middle East Journalists Association and has had stints at BBC News in London and at the New York Times Syndicate in Manhattan. Hankir was born in the United Kingdom during Lebanon鈥檚 civil war, and has lived in Sidon, Beirut, Dubai, New York, Manchester and London. She is based in Brooklyn and regularly travels to the Middle East.
Her next book, EYELINER: A CULTURAL HISTORY, will combine social commentary and on-the-ground reporting to trace the impact of eyeliner on conceptions of beauty, power, and gender throughout the past three millennia鈥攆rom Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse鈥攚ith a particular focus on non-Western cultures. It will be published by Penguin Books in 2023.
