Wisam Albayati is a Baghdad-based journalist and documentary filmmaker specializing in conflict zone reporting, political and feature reporting and long-form documentaries. Driven by a strong commitment to pursuing facts, he has more than a decade of international journalism experience, covering major events and developments in Iraq and abroad, with work that has appeared on international media organizations including Press TV, NPR, CGTN, USA Today, RT, AP, and TRT. His linguistic proficiency in Kurdish, Turkmen, Arabic and English has enabled him to build an extensive network of contacts across Iraq, allowing him to access and verify information from a wide range of locations and communities.