Shaimaa Khalil is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC for more than twelve years. She’s currently the BBC’s Australia correspondent. She has reported across the Middle East, covering some of the biggest stories of the last decade, including the Arab Spring, the military campaign to liberate Mosul, the 2016 US elections and Australia’s 2019-2020 bushfires. [Source: Hardie Grant](https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/authors/shaimaa-khalil)