Nada Bakri

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Nada Bakri is a Lebanese American journalist who covered the Middle East for over a decade, covering events including the 2006 July War and the Arab Spring. She was also a contributor to the 2019 anthology Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Middle East .[1]

Life[edit]

Bakri gained an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.[2]

Based in Beirut and Baghdad, Bakri covered the Middle East for newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Daily Star.[2]

She was married to the journalist Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria in 2012.[3][4] She donated his papers to the American University of Beirut.[5]

She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

Works[edit]

  • 'Love and Loss in a Time of Revolution', in Hankir, Zahra, ed. (2019). Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Penguin.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hankir, Zahra, ed. (2019). Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Penguin. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-525-50520-4.
  2. ^ a b c "Nada Bakr". International Women's Media Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
  3. ^ "Nada Bakri on husband Anthony Shadid's death in Syria". April 16, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
  4. ^ Bakri, Nada (May 31, 2023). "Nada Bakri on Dealing With Losing Her Husband and Father". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
  5. ^ "Anthony Shadid's Daughter Follows In His Footsteps: 'Journalism Brings Me Closer To Him'". WBUR. November 26, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2023.