Philip Fairbanks

About Philip Fairbanks

Philip Fairbanks is an Arab American author and journalist with over 20 years of print and online publishing experience. He has been covering the Kai the Hitchhiker case since 2017 and is currently the only journalist regularly covering the case who is actually in touch with Kai.

Fairbanks spent years doing news reporting, op-eds, music reviews, interviews and concert features for publications like the now defunct GetUnderground.com. In the early 2000s, Fairbanks cut his teeth doing music journalism for publications like Delusions of Adequacy, Impose and others. He continues to do entertainment reporting to this day with New Noise magazine.

Fairbanks’ first academic publication was a peer reviewed article in 2004 for the State University of New York art journal, Afterimage. He has also written multiple articles for the City University of New York graduate program newspaper The Advocate. Fairbanks wrote about the state sanctioned abuse of Dr. Sami al-Arian as well as writing a piece on war tax resistance that was described by The Picket Line as "much more in-depth than what you usually see in the papers."

Fairbanks has also worked writing ad copy and content creation for various e-commerce websites, ghostwriting, as well as news reporting for Inquisitr, The Latest, Blasting News and other sites. Currently, Fairbanks has an article regarding the Kai the Hitchhiker case in consideration with CUNY Advocate.

My work on Kai the Hitchhiker case has also appeared in CUNY's graduate newspaper the Advocate and I recently did a second show with Ed Opperman about the Kai the Hitchhiker case and (as featured in Daily Beast, Variety, ABC News, et al.), Jessob Reisbeck, Matt Friedman of Politico, a producer from a big-3 network news program and a few other folks are interested in seeing the book when it's released or talking to me and I'd love to extend the offer to any interested podcasters, reviewers, or reporters who'd like to cover the story.