Joe Snell is an award-winning Assyrian American journalist reporting from Erbil in northern Iraq. His work has taken him across Iraq and Lebanon, as well as Europe and the United States, with bylines in outlets like The Washington Post and Al-Monitor. He is the founder of The Assyrian Journal and the author of “Our Assyrian Story,” a project dedicated to documenting the history and lived experiences of the global Assyrian community.

Throughout his career, he has focused on shedding light on this often underreported community, ultimately choosing to go independent and relocate to Iraq last October.

In this episode, we explore his path into journalism, his life on the ground in Iraq and what it means to tell the stories of one of the region’s oldest and most overlooked communities.

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