Anthony Shadid
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Anthony Shadid is an Arab-American of Lebanese descent born in Oklahoma. He is an American journalist currently working for the Washington Post. As of 2004, he has been the Islamic affairs correspondent for the Washington Post. [1] He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 for his Post coverage of the Iraq War. His experiences in Iraq were the subject for his 2005 book Night Draws Near, an empathetic look at how the war has impacted the Iraqi people beyond the clichés of liberation and insurgency. During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict he has visited the site of the Qana airstrike. He said that the human suffering and destruction he witnessed in Lebanon was among the worse that he has ever seen, "as bad as Fallujah". [2]
Prior to working at the Post he worked at the Boston Globe. Before that he worked at the Associated Press.
[edit] Works
- Anthony Shadid (2005). Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-7602-6
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2004/international-reporting/bio/
- ^ Interview on Al Franken Show, Air America Radio, 1:25 PM, Eastern US time, 1 August 2006
[edit] External links
- Anthony Shadid at the Washington Post.
