Abeer Allam

Abeer Allam is an experienced journalist specializing in Middle Eastern affairs, particularly Saudi Arabia, Gulf states, Yemen, and Egypt. She served as Gulf news editor for the Financial Times (2008-2012) and later as Gulf correspondent based in the UAE, covering political Islam, economic developments, women's issues, and Arab Spring uprisings. Her career includes roles at Bloomberg News and The New York Times where she reported on the Iraq War and regional economic trends. A 2015 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Allam studied social media's impact on societal reforms in closed communities and analyzed the Arab uprisings' influence on Saudi Arabia. Her work has appeared in FT, Al-Monitor, and NewsBreak, with notable coverage of Yemen's political transitions and Saudi economic reforms.