Nesrine
Malik

Nesrine Malik is a British Sudanese columnist and features writer for The Guardian. She was born in Sudan and grew up in Kenya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. She received her undergraduate education at the American University in Cairo and University of Khartoum, and her post graduate education at the University of London. Alongside her journalism career she previously spent ten years in emerging markets private equity. She was named Society and Diversity Commentator of the Year at the 2017 Comment Awards and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils in 2019 and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2021. We Need New Stories is her first book.