Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein is Associate Editor at New Lines Magazine. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer who has reported on jihadist networks, foreign fighters, trafficking, and criminal networks. His work on jihadis was recognized by the Royal Television Society in 2015. He was nominated for the Orwell prizes in 2021 and 2022 for his journalism and investigative work.

He has lived and worked in the Middle East-North Africa region and speaks several of the region’s languages, including Arabic and Farsi. He writes both nonfiction and fiction and is the author of “To The Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan,” “Travels of Ibn Fudayl,” “The Darkness Inside,” and “Shadows Over Kabul: An Insider’s Account of the Fall of the Afghan Republic”. He also has a Substack page: The Blood Rep.