Yasmeen Abutaleb Biography
Yasmeen Abutaleb is an American media personality serving as the White House Reporter at The Washington Post. She also co-wrote the New York Times No. 1 bestseller “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History” with Deputy Business Editor Damian Paletta. Yasmeen joined The Washington Post in 2019. Previously, she was a Reporter at Reuters where she covered healthcare and technology.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Age
Abutaleb is in her 30s. However, her birthday is unknown.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Height
She is tall. However, her exact height is undisclosed.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Nationality
She holds American nationality.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Education
Abutaleb graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland in 2010. She first learned about journalism in Walt Whitman’s newspaper, the Black and White. She then joined the University of Maryland where she received a B.S. in microbiology and a B.A. in journalism in 2014. Abutaleb served as the editor-in-chief of the University’s newspaper, The Diamondback from 2012-2013.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Parents
Yasmeen is the daughter of Hanan Elbakry and Mohammed Abutaleb. As a journalist, she is following in the footsteps of her late grandfather, who was a radio journalist for Voice of America in Egypt, Greece, and the United States. Yasmeen veered from the long line of engineers and scientists in her family, but to their relief, she still ended up married to an engineer.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Wedding/Husband
Yasmeen is married to her lovely husband, Ibrahim Alkhalaf, who is an engineer. They live in Maryland with their two cats. Yasmeen who is a journalist broke away from the long line of engineers and scientists in her family, but to their relief, she still ended up marrying an engineer.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Washington Post
Yasmeen is a White House reporter with The Washington Post. She started in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy and reported on the Trump and Biden administration responses to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services. Yasmeen was part of a team of reporters who wrote a six-part series about Trump’s mismanagement of COVID-19 and contributed to several scoops. These included stories that revealed Jared Kushner’s formation of a volunteer supply chain task force made up of 20-somethings with no government experience, an internal CDC presentation that declared “the war has changed” with the delta variant before health officials publicly acknowledged breakthrough infections were happening, and Trump’s embrace of a deadly “herd immunity” strategy before vaccines and treatments were available.
Yasmeen also co-wrote the New York Times No. 1 bestseller “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History” with Deputy Business Editor Damian Paletta.
Before joining The Post in 2019, Yasmeen was a reporter for five years at Reuters, where she covered health care.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Salary
Her salary is undisclosed.
Yasmeen Abutaleb Net Worth
Her net worth is under review.
