Hannah Allam (born 1977)[1] is an Egyptian American journalist and reporter who frequently covers the Middle East.

She was raised in the US as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, returning to the US to complete high school in Oklahoma.

Prior to her position at The Washington Post, she was a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism.

She then became a staff reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from which McClatchy recruited her in 2003 to assist them with their in-depth coverage of the Iraq War.

She worked for McClatchy as a war correspondent in Baghdad even during her 2010 pregnancy, although the military would not let her board helicopters once her belly started to show.