Fahim Abed is an investigations editor with Lighthouse Reports.

Fahim Abed was a local reporter for The New York Times in Afghanistan until the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021. He was evacuated from Kabul with a number of his colleagues and relocated to the United States. Fahim was part of the New York Times team that won an Overseas Press Club Award for coverage of Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Times in 2016, he worked as a producer and reporter with Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, the BBC World Service and various local outlets in Afghanistan. He is a 2019 alumni of the East West Center’s fellowship program and an Afghanistan Observatory Scholar with New America. In the spring of 2022, he joined the Tribune-Review in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a visual journalist through the World Association of News Publishers’ Afghan Journalist Appeal program. He is currently a Nieman fellow at Harvard. He is studying migration and American history with a focus on Asian migrants to the U.S. and the integration challenges they face.

Portrait Fahim Abed

Basic information

Name
Fahim Abed
Title
Investigations Editor
Expertise
Afghanistan
Country
United States
City
Cambridge
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Supported projects

Turkey’s Deportation Machine

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Politics

ISTANBUL/PARIS/UTRECHT - The European Union has helped Turkey to deport Syrian and Afghan refugees to situations of hardship, danger and even death through a system of arrest, detention and removal that has developed over time, this investigation has found.