Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

Key themes of her work:

• Exposing the human cost of U.S. militarism and corporate power in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and beyond.
• Challenging dehumanizing narratives about occupied and sanctioned populations.
• Amplifying grassroots movements for racial, economic, and carceral justice in the U.S.

As host of Dispatches, Khalek convenes critical voices often excluded from mainstream discourse, including Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, and regional leaders such as Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem. These conversations dissect geopolitics through the lens of anti-imperialism and global solidarity.

Khalek’s reporting has shaped public debate on issues ranging from police violence to sanctions regimes, earning recognition for its rigor and unflinching focus on silenced perspectives. Based in Beirut, she continues to report from the frontlines of resistance to war and inequality.