About

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 Reuters, TIME Magazine, the Boston Globe, New York, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Newsweek, Men’s Journal, The Intercept and the Wall Street Journal. 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 decided to chuck it and start traveling and writing for myself, trying to find some of what is best in the world.

The goal was to circumnavigate the globe using only surface transportation, be it car, rickshaw, donkey-cart, kayak, whatever. This is the story of that journey.

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
• Inside the Imam Ali Shrine