Karen Attiah

Karen Attiah (born August 12, 1986) is a Ghanaian-American writer and Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post. Attiah was born in Northeastern Texas in 1986 to a Nigerian-Ghanaian mother and Ghanaian father. After a bachelor's degree at Northwestern University, Attiah won a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Accra, Ghana and obtained an MA from Columbia University before later joining the Washington Post.

Karen Attiah
Attiah in 2017 as moderator for New America think tank
Born (1986-08-12) August 12, 1986
Desoto, Texas, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationJournalist
Known forBeing the editor of Jamal Khashoggi
Parent(s)
  • Grace Attiah (mother)

Attiah gained further prominence in October 2018 when one of the columnists she had recruited in 2017 for the Washington Post's "Global Opinions" section, the writer Jamal Khashoggi, went missing on 2 October 2018 in Istanbul.[1] In an interview in Marie Claire, she claimed her Whatsapp started blowing up with “Jamal’s missing" messages, and she felt she knew the worst had happened.[2] On October 5, two days after his disappearance, Attiah let his column space remain blank with the title "A missing voice" and her tweet with the empty space was retweeted by Christiane Amanpour and 1,206 others.[3] Since then she has been interviewed by major news outlets as the primary contact for Khashoggi's last published opinion.

In July 2019, Attiah accused Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, of making dog whistling attacks against Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley and asserting that it has helped to fuel President Donald Trump's rhetoric.[4]

References
  1. Interview about Attiah-Khasshoggi Global Opinion collaboration, Robin Wright's New Yorker collaboration with him, and Sarah Margon's interpretation as Washington director of Human Rights Watch on C-SPAN, 17 October 2018
  2. 17 October 2018 Article in Marie Claire by Kayla Webley Adler
  3. Washington Post Opinions tweet on 5 October 2018
  4. Re, Greg (July 15, 2019). "AOC unloads on Trump after he tells progressive congresswomen to 'go back' to home countries". MSN News. Make no mistake: Nancy Pelosi's dogwhistling snipes at @AOC, Ilhan Omar, @RashidaTlaib and @RepPressley helped pave the way for this vicious, racist attack from the president.
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