Stephen Kalin is a 2024 Millennium fellow and a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal based in the Middle East, where he has lived since 2009. He also began reporting from Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022. He moved to Riyadh in 2017 to cover the rise of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the profound social, economic, and political shifts underway in the Kingdom. Kalin previously worked for Reuters News for seven years. In Iraq, he covered the US-backed military campaign to end the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s control of territory, reporting extensively from the frontlines of that war in Mosul and Anbar province in Iraq. Before that, he covered the Syrian civil war and the rise of Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He has reported from more than a dozen countries. Kalin is from New York. He earned a degree in political science from Davidson College and then learned Arabic in Cairo.