Wondering how the Taliban's ban on opium is going, two years in? Here's some more innovative and nuanced research based on sat imagery from David Mansfield

Glad you enjoyed one of the book's more opaque lines

Today!

Boston friends, I'll be talking about my book and migration next Tuesday at Boston College with Min Song, come on by

This rave review for the new Jonathan Blitzer book on immigration is so well-deserved. And it's written by a true master of the topic, Matthieu Aikins.
I am deep into the book, and it's riveting. Absolutely indispensable to understanding this urgent crisis.
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I reviewed Jonathan Blitzer's timely and instructive history of the immigration crisis, 'Everyone Who is Gone is Here,' for New York Times Books - here's a paywall-free link: nytimes.com/2024/02/05/boo…

Producers Peter Saraf and Eddie Rubin are set to develop the adaptation for Type Media Center fellow & Pulitzer Prize winner Matthieu Aikins’ (Matthieu Aikins) non-fiction book, 'The Naked Don’t Fear The Water.' deadline.com/2024/01/peter-…

Looks excellent

Somehow I got lucky and found the perfect team to produce the adaptation of my book. The crazy part is they're letting me write the script. Turns out making stuff up is a lot of fun. Thanks Peter and Eddie! deadline.com/2024/01/peter-…

Grazzie mille Italia! Definitely one of my favorite book tours for Iperborea Casa Editrice. Thank you to their brilliant staff as well as the fine folks of Internazionale for hosting me in Ferrara. Thank you also to annalisa camilli, Luca Misculin , Libreria MarcoPolo and verso libri.

As a proud alum, thrilled to see friends Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Rozina Ali victorjblue & Ben Mauk in the latest crop of New America fellows. Congrats! newamerica.org/fellows/curren…

Tonight in Cambridge!

More gripping work from Hannah Dreier on migrant child labor in the US.

The #Bollywood references apart, this is a sprawling, epic saga of desperation and hardship, written by journalist Matthieu Aikins, who accompanies his #Afghan friend as he flees the Taliban and sets out on the refugee trail to Europe

Looking forward to this book talk tomorrow at Cambridge Public Library

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Thanks to everyone who came out to NYU Journalism last week to see me, Rozina Ali and Suketu Mehta. Great turnout and great questions.

Just finished The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, by Matthieu Aikins. The story behind the people arriving by boat in Kent and Lesbos and Lampedusa. Lifts the lid on those horrendous journeys. Such a warm-hearted, excellent book. Fitzcarraldo Editions