Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein is an award‑winning investigative journalist and writer, currently an investigative journalist for ITV News and Associate Editor at New Lines Magazine. His reporting on jihadist networks, foreign fighters, refugees, trafficking and criminal organizations across the Middle East and North Africa was recognized by the Royal Television Society in 2015, and he earned nominations for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2021 for his work on modern slavery and in 2022 for his coverage of conflict.

He is the author of three books—the critically acclaimed non‑fiction To The Mountains: My Life in Jihad; the historical novella Travels of Ibn Fudayl; and the crime novel The Darkness Inside, now optioned by Big Deal Films—and publishes regularly on his Substack, The Blood Rep. He serves as a judge for the NUJ/Orwell Society Young Journalist Awards. Hussein has lived and worked across the Middle East, and knows several languages, including Italian, Arabic, Swedish, Bengali, Farsi and Urdu.