About Truly, Nomadly, Deeply

Hello there, I’m Chris Allbrit­ton, a for­mer con­flict reporter, hav­ing cov­ered wars in Iraq, Lebanon and Pak­istan over the last decade for a vari­ety of pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing Time Mag­a­zine, Reuters and the San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle. in 2002, I started back​-to​-iraq​.com, which gained some fame/​notoriety back in the early days of the Iraq war. But after too many sto­ries about the worst in human­ity, I’ve decided to chuck it and start trav­el­ing and writ­ing for myself, try­ing to find some of what is best in the world.

The goal is to cir­cum­nav­i­gate the globe using only sur­face trans­porta­tion, be it car, rick­shaw, donkey-​​cart, kayak, what­ever. Oth­ers have done it, and it seems like it can be done again. This is the story of that jour­ney. Wanna come along and see how it ends?

Some of my pub­lished work includes:

From Pak­istan:

• Insight: Gold war in Pak­istan high­lights invest­ment risks
• Pak­istan Supreme Court takes cen­tre stage as polit­i­cal player
• How Pak­istan helps the U.S. drone campaign
• Pakistan-U.S. ties on hold for “re-​​evaluation”
• Civil­ians have whip-​​hand in show­down with Pak­istan military
• Pakistan’s for­mer envoy to U.S. caught in web of scandal
• Top Pak­istan Tal­iban com­man­ders “at each other’s throats”
• Pakistan’s Imran Khan: play­boy crick­eter to PM?
• Analy­sis: Attack hands Pak­istan a chance to squeeze U.S.
• Pakistan’s Tur­moil Endan­gers Its Archae­o­log­i­cal Treasures

From Lebanon:

• An Envi­ron­men­tal Dis­as­ter Emerges On Lebanon Coast
• Bod­ies pil­ing up in assault on camp
• Lebanon Diary: A Mass Exodus
• Hizbal­lah Nation
• In Search of Beirut
• Sur­viv­ing — and Leav­ing — Beirut
• A Moun­tain of Tears in Beirut
• Road to Nowhere
• The Refugees’ Road Home

From Iraq:

• Look­ing Out on Hos­tile Territory
• Mak­ing Tribal War Work for the U.S. in Iraq
• A Talk with Iraq’s Prime Minister
• Saddam’s Trial: Behind the Scene
• Tak­ing Back Iraq’s Streets
• Among the Believers