
Mujib Mashal
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Mujib Mashal
@MujMash
(On a break here) South Asia bureau chief, The New York Times. Previously: senior correspondent, Afghanistan. Views are my own.





There's a strategic consequence for these sort of propaganda. India will be weakened internally and isolated in the region where antithetical forces will emerge under extra-regional support. Wonder why a ruling dispensation would prefer that. x.com/BJP4Assam/stat…


“Today, that road — once dusty and filled with parched travelers — is a green corridor lined with hundreds of towering trees that form a sprawling canopy.” @CopiousNotes27 nytimes.com/2026/02/06/wor…





Incredible professional run, Smriti. Incredible. Second-highest run-getter at 2025 World Cup (September-October-November). Leading run-getter at WPL 2026 (January-February). Four and a half unforgettable months. Immense resilience. Pristine, peerless batting.

Heartbroken to have been laid off by The Washington Post today. It has been the honour of a lifetime to work with these colleagues for a decade, from Damascus to Baghdad, Derna to to Bakhmut. I am proud of our work. Thank you, everyone.


I have been laid off today from the @washingtonpost, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents who have been my friends and collaborators for almost 12 years. It’s been an honor to work with them. I launched the WorldView column in January 2017 to help readers better understand the world and America’s place in it and I’m grateful for the half a million loyal subscribers who tuned into the column several times a week over the years.

Feel so incredibly privileged to have spent 13 years as a foreign correspondent at the Washington Post. What a wild run: Lebanon, Iraq, Jerusalem and Berlin and so much more. Thank you to everyone that trusted me to tell their stories.


I got laid off today with my other talented Posties. It was an amazing ride to do more open source work and keep reporting on Iran. Thank you to my amazing colleagues and editors for making space for some of my favorite work. Please DM if you'd like to work together. Grateful to have reconstructed the Rasht Bazaar incident most recently. wapo.st/4thMtpi

It was a privilege to be a Post correspondent, roaming the world the last 7+ years for a paper I very much believed in. I'm gone along with the rest of the ME team and majority of teammates from Delhi to Beijing to Kyiv & Latam. Sad day, but it was a lot of fun and we raised hell




