Nahlah Ayed is a CBC foreign correspondent based in London. A veteran of international reportage, she began her career covering the Middle East for nearly a decade. Prior to joining CBC News, Ayed was a parliamentary reporter for The Canadian Press. She is the author of the memoir A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2012.