Joe Snell, an Assyrian-American award-winning journalist and founder of the Assyrian Journal has released a book with a collection of stories from his dispatch to Assyria.
“Our Assyrian Story” tells about the struggles of an ancient nation fighting to preserve its language and culture in the face of land encroachment, religious persecution, and assimilation. The book is described as an archive of Assyrian stories and photos by Joe Snell published in The Assyrian Journal between 2017 and 2025.
Joe Snell left a career in Hollywood to share the story of Assyrians. His reporting has taken him to Iraq, Lebanon, Germany, Paris, Belgium and across the United States. He previously worked as an international video journalist for The Washington Post and earlier as a video journalist for Al-Monitor, a digital news outlet focused on the Middle East.
In 2025, he was part of a team that won the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism award. He was awarded Northwestern University’s Harrington Award in 2020, the school's highest graduate honor. He's also a recipient of the national Scranton Gillette Fellowship and the Radio Television Digital News Association's Vada and Col. Barney Oldfield National Security Reporting Fellowship.
Since then, he’s worked as a journalist at The Washington Post and found himself at the center of some of the world’s biggest stories — reporting live during the 2025 U.S. presidential election, covering the White House, traveling across the country on breaking news assignments, and dispatching to events unfolding in the Middle East. For his work, he was awarded the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism award.
In 2017, he founded The Assyrian Journal, an online news site covering the global Assyrian community.
“Our Assyrian Story” is available for order here.
