Stephen Kalin
Foreign Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Stephen Kalin is 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. He has reported on every major development in contemporary Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors.
Stephen previously worked for Reuters News for seven years. In Iraq, he covered the U.S.-backed military campaign to end the Islamic State group’s control of territory, reporting extensively from the frontlines of that war in Mosul and Anbar province. Before that, he covered the Syrian civil war and the rise of Egyptian strongman Abdelfattah al-Sisi. He has reported from more than a dozen countries.
Stephen is from New York. He earned a degree in political science from Davidson College and then learned Arabic in Cairo.