Khabat Abbas | The New York Review of Books

Khabat Abbas

Khabat Abbas is an independent journalist and video producer based in northeast Syria. Since 2011, she has covered the conflict in Syria, working as a frontline journalist for local agencies such as Firat and Hawar News, and as a stringer for The Sunday Times (of London), The Washington Post, and Der Spiegel, among others. She has also worked for the UNHCR, and as a translator and a security coordinator for MSF. (October 2019)

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A Dispatch from Kurdish Syria

Our American allies turned their backs on us. There is a proverb in Kurdish that says, “Don’t spit in the dish you ate from.” The Americans spat in their dish.

October 23, 2019