Anthony Shadid
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Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma of Lebanese descent. He is a staff writer for The Washington Post where he is an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before the Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for the Boston Globe before joining the Post's foreign desk.[1]
Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 for his Post coverage of the Iraq War. [2] 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 worst that he has ever seen, "as bad as Fallujah." [3]
Prior to working at the Post he worked at the Boston Globe. Before that he worked at the Associated Press.
[edit] Bibliography
- Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005. ISBN 0-8050-7602-6
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Washington Post staff page
- ^ The Pulitzer Prize
- ^ Interview on Al Franken Show, Air America Radio, 1:25 PM, Eastern US time, 1 August 2006
[edit] External links
- Christian Caryl, "What About the Iraqis?", The New York Review of Books (January 11, 2007) - review of Night Draws Near
- David Chambers, "Calling Helen Thomas" in Saudi Aramco World (March/April 2006) - feature article profiling Anthony Shadid as well as Newsweek's Lorraine Ali and NBC's Hoda Kotb.
