Hannah Allam Biography
Hannah Allam is a journalist and reporter. She is a national security journalist who focuses on extremism and domestic terrorism. She came to The Post from NPR, where she worked on the national security team.
Hannah Allam Age
Allam was born on 1977, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America. She is 46 years old as of 2023.
Hannah Allam Family- Education
Allam was born in the city of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1977 to a Muslim household. She was reared in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates before returning to the United States to finish high school in Oklahoma. She studied journalism in college and was the editor of the student newspaper at the University of Oklahoma. She speaks English, French, and Arabic.
Hannah Allam Career
She has worked for The Washington Post since November 2020. Allam has extensive experience working for MSN publications. Prior to joining The Washington Post, she worked as a national security journalist for NPR in Washington, concentrating on domestic extremism. She was a national correspondent for BuzzFeed News in Washington, DC before joining NPR. McClatchy Newspapers’ Middle East Bureau Chief (Baghdad) was Allam. Allam interned at The Washington Post early in her career. She later worked as a staff reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where McClatchy hired her in 2003 to help with their in-depth coverage of the Iraq War. Even during her pregnancy in 2010, she worked as a war journalist for McClatchy in Baghdad.
She was a Harvard University Nieman Fellow from 2008 to 2009. Because she was reared in the Middle East and has Egyptian ancestors, she had rare possibilities to interact with women in Iraq during Middle Eastern hostilities. She wrote a chapter about her experiences for Zahra Hankir’s 2019 book “Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World.” In 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022, Allam served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize.
Hannah Allam Awards
- 1999, 1998–1999 University of Oklahoma, Division of Student Affairs, CSPA Gold Circle Awards:
- 2004, National Association of Black Journalists, 2004 Journalist of the Year Award.
- 2006, Overseas Press Club (with two of her Baghdad Bureau colleagues), Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad for “Iraq: America’s Failing War.”
- 2008–2009, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
- 2009, 30th annual McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia
Hannah Allam Net Worth
Allam has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.