About Aida

Bio

Aida Alami is a Moroccan reporter who has been contributing to The New York Times since 2011. Based in Rabat, Morocco, and Paris, she mainly covers migration, human rights, religion, politics and racism. She has reported from North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Senegal. She was a contributor to the best-selling book, “Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World,” and is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism. Ms. Alami grew up in Marrakesh and is fluent in French and Arabic.