“I think rule number one is that you go to a place and you try to learn… The way i see it, you don’t get extra credit because you understand the people, or because you understand the language. It’s not necessarily a positive thing to be coming from a certain region if you’re covering that region. […] And I don’t think that the best people covering the Middle East are [necessarily] from the Middle East.” link
Click the video above to see Ghaith talking at the Frontline Club event in New York City. Or listen to him take part in a lengthy discussion with Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson about working as a photojournalist in Iraq at the Frontline Club in London.