Khaled Mansour

Khaled Mansour is a writer and communications expert with extensive experience at the United Nations and as a foreign correspondent. He has worked and written on political issues, human rights, humanitarian aid, and peacekeeping. From 1990 to 1999, he worked as a journalist, and from 1999 to 2013 he worked as a UN Spokesperson and Communications Advisor/Director. In these roles, he worked in conflict and transitional situations such as in South Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan in addition to his work on US politics in Washington D.C. in the 1990s and at the UN headquarters in New York. Before he became a full-time writer in 2015, he was the Executive Director of Egypt's leading human rights organization, EIPR (2013-2014). He published seven books, mostly in Arabic. His debut novel, “A Minefield” and his memoirs on Afghanistan, “From Taliban to Taliban” appeared in early 2022. He obtained degrees in Engineering, Archaeology, Sociology, and International Relations from universities in Egypt, South Africa and the USA. He keeps a blog at khaledmansour.org.