In the fall of 2012, Nahlah Ayed was based in London and covering the world for the CBC. Her stories were filed from Riyadh and Tehran, Beirut and Baghdad, India, Pakistan, Kenya, and Haiti. For a decade, she lived in and covered the Middle East for the CBC. Her book, A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring, tells the story of her journey from Winnipeg to a refugee camp in Jordan, which formed the foundation of her life as a foreign correspondent. Days after she visited campus she was back in Egypt, reporting from Tahrir Square.