Kim Ghattas is an author and analyst with more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcast media, covering the Middle East, international affairs, and US foreign policy. She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine and writes regularly for the Financial Times. She is the author of “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East,” a New York Times notable book of 2020.