For the last 14 years Paolo Pellegrin has documented the turbulent and historic times that scarred many nations of the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, through the so called 'Arab Spring' to the present day battles and rise of ISIS. This portfolio concentrates on the conflicts, the power struggles, and the devastation that befell the people of Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan and led many to flee across borders and some towards European shores.

As part of a 18 month assignment for the New York Times Magazine, Pellegrin along with writer Scott Anderson, embarked on a series of trips to the Middle East to explore how and why the region continued to unravel through 2015 and into the summer of 2016; including assignments that took them to the Greek islands providing refuge to a huge stream of migrants from Iraq and Syria, and to the front lines in northern Iraq where the battle to halt the Islamic State was most fierce.

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