Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Akbar Shahid Ahmed is the diplomatic correspondent at The Star. For his Gaza coverage, he has received a Writers Guild Award and a New York Press Club Award and has twice been named a finalist for the Livingston Award. Based in Washington, D.C., Ahmed previously covered foreign policy at HuffPost for twelve years. He is a Yale graduate who grew up in Karachi, Pakistan.
Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Akbar Shahid Ahmed is the diplomatic correspondent at The Star. For his Gaza coverage, he has received a Writers Guild Award and a New York Press Club Award and has twice been named a finalist for the Livingston Award. Based in Washington, D.C., Ahmed previously covered foreign policy at HuffPost for twelve years. He is a Yale graduate who grew up in Karachi, Pakistan.
Books by Akbar Shahid Ahmed

Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza
Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Hardback, 2026
A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fuelled bloodshed in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist

Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza
Akbar Shahid Ahmed
E Book
A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fuelled bloodshed in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist



