Antoun Issa

Antoun Issa is a Lebanese-Australian journalist and founder of Deepcut News. After completing his Master of International Relations at the Australian National University, he moved to Lebanon in 2011 where he worked as a journalist during the heights of the Arab Spring. Antoun relocated to Washington DC in 2015 where he worked at the Middle East Institute, a US think-tank, before joining The Atlantic as an editorial strategist. He returned to Australia in 2020, joining The Guardian Australia until his departure in 2024.