Larisa Brown

Larisa Brown has worked as a journalist for more than a decade, covering the Middle East region and wider issues on defence, security, diplomacy and politics. She is currently Defence Editor at The Times and also covers security and diplomacy for the Sunday Times. Her work has taken her to multiple conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Libya and she was posted to Beirut, Lebanon for a short period in 2018. Larisa is a British Journalism Awards Campaign of the Year winner for her work highlighting the plight of Afghan interpreters.

Her first book, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah, was published by Bloomsbury in September 2023. By telling one family’s bittersweet experience, this book provides a unique and powerful insight into the devastating effects of the end of the disastrous ‘War on Terror’.