Nasri Atallah

Nasri Atallah is the editor of The National’s TN Magazine. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of Esquire Middle East, Esquire Qatar, and Esquire Saudi, Head of Content at SRMG Labs, and a long-time contributing writer at GQ Middle East. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Monocle, Little White Lies and other leading publications.
Across his career, he has interviewed senior lifestyle industry leaders such as Chanel’s Bruno Pavlovsky, Bentley’s Frank-Steffen Walliser, Tommy Hilfiger and Elie Saab, as well as major cultural figures from the Middle East and beyond including David Beckham, Max Verstappen, Yusra Mardini, Sultan Al Qassemi, Marwan Moussa, Adonis, Youssef Nabil, José Andrés, Nobu Matsuhisa, Ahmed Malek, Dhafer L’Abidine, Nadine Labaki, Peggy Gou, Theaster Gates, Mashrou’ Leila, May Calamawy, Bassel Khaiat and many others.
Alongside his editorial work, Atallah is an author, screenwriter and award-winning film and television producer. He recently executive produced the short documentary Swim Sistas, narrated by Academy Award nominee Naomie Harris, and The Long Away Game, selected as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Reframe the Game strand in the UK. As founder of Last Floor Productions, he served as showrunner on Al Shak (Doubt) and executive producer on Fixer for MBC’s Shahid, helping shape some of the platform’s early scripted originals. His production credits also include acclaimed short films such as It Gets Darker, projects for Apple and London’s V&A Museum, as well as a slate of Mediterranean-focused narrative fiction currently in development.