Hussain Ehsani

Hussain Ehsani is an independent researcher based in Ottawa, Canada. He holds a Master’s degree from University of Tehran, in Middle East studies. His concentration was on the independence of Kurdistan and the regional security of Middle East. Ehsani previously worked in Iraq researching terrorist groups, specifically ISIS and Al Qaeda. In Afghanistan, Ehsani worked for the Islamic State of Khorasan Province, at the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies where he wrote a book with Sean Withington, called Islamic State Wilayat Khorasan: Phoney Caliphate or Bona Fide Province? After the US withdrew from Afghanistan, he fled to Canada where he now covers the the war in Gaza. Hussain Ehsani is fluent in Farsi, Arabic and knows Kurdish and Pashto.