He reports regularly for the Los Angeles
Times from the region. In the past year,
his work has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, National Geographic, The
Guardian, Boston Review, and The Nation.
He received a Pulitzer Center Crisis Reporting Grant in 2017
to report from Pakistan's tribal areas.
In 2018, he received a grant from the National Geographic Society to
report from Afghanistan, Turkey, and Germany on the plight of Afghan refugees.
He has reported from Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Syria,
Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Mexico, and the US.
His work has also appeared in the Wall St Journal, Foreign Policy, the
Christian Science Monitor, the Globe and Mail, IRIN News, and Al Jazeera
English.
Umar speaks fluent Urdu, and intermediate Arabic and
Turkish.
He was born in Pakistan, and raised in the United States.
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