Nesrine Malik

Nesrine Malik is a Sudanese British journalist and author who specialises in global politics. She was born in Sudan, and grew up there and has lived and studied in Kenya, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. She is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and the author of We Need New Stories – Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent. Malik is a graduate of the University of Khartoum and a Fellow of Georgetown University's Global Dialogues. She was made the first Sudanese fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature in 2022 and is the recipient of the 2021 John B. Silvers Prize for Journalism.