Zainab Mehdi is a British-Iraqi Journalist and is The New Arab's News & Features Associate Editor. 

Zainab's writing has been featured in Mille World, GQ Middle East, Carnegie Middle East Center, The National News, TRT World, Tribe Photo Magazine, 5ELEVEN Magazine, Amwaj.media, Middle East Monitor, The Arab Weekly, Oxford Middle East Review (OMER) Journal, LSE Review of Books, and LSE Middle East Centre. 

Zainab holds a BSc in Modern History and International Relations from the University of Essex and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

At present, Zainab lives in London.