Matt Broomfield

is a British journalist, doctoral researcher, critic, translator, and poet, focused on the Kurdish issue. He has reported from Kurdistan for the Telegraph, the Independent, and the New Statesman, among others, while appearing on BBC, ITV, Al Jazeera, and other international news channels as an expert analyst.

He spent three years living and working in Syrian Kurdistan as co-founder of the Rojava Information Center, the region’s top independent, English- language news source; as an award-winning poet, published a collection of poetry (Brave little sternums: poems from Rojava) based on his time in the region; and as a fluent Kurdish speaker and translator, regularly appears in the Kurdish press as an analyst. He is the author of Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment (AK Press, 2025).