Matt Broomfield

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2025

Matt Broomfield is a freelance journalist and PhD researcher focused on the Kurdish movement and non-state governance amid the contemporary crisis in the Middle East. He lived and worked in Kurdish-led North and East Syria (NES) for three years. Broomfield is also an award-winning poet and author of a forthcoming work of political theory, 'Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment' (AK Press, 2025). He also loves to travel and recently spent two years living and working in the Balkans.

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