Our Man in Beirut – Nasri Atallah

I’m a British-Lebanese author, publisher and media entrepreneur. I’ve published a best-selling collection of stories, Our Man in Beirut (Turning Point Books). I’m currently working on my first crime novel at the acclaimed Faber Academy in London, where I will be until March 2018.

I’ve contributed writing to a bunch of publications, including The Guardian, GQ, Little White Lies, Monocle, Brownbook, CBC, and Time Out.

I studied Politics at the American University of Beirut (BA) and International Politics of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (MSc). I have also studied entrepreneurship with Babson College and UCL School of Management (through the UK Lebanon Tech Hub) and Novel Writing at the City Literary Institute in London.

I live in London’s Kentish Town with the wonderful, talented, award-winning Lebanese designer Nour Hage, who happens to be my wife (unluckily for her). We have a beautiful cat who saved my life called Margo.