Lorraine Ali

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Lorraine Ali is a reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek. She was born to an Iraqi American father who immigrated from Baghdad to Los Angeles in the 1950s. Her mother is of French Canadian descent and was born and raised in Los Angeles. ^[1] She covers culture at large for Newsweek as well as pop culture, and writes frequently about the Middle East, most importantly Iraq in pieces such as "When Home Becomes Hell"^[2]. She has interviewed artists ranging from music mogul Jay-Z to The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini^[3] to American icon Johnny Cash.

Lorraine has also worked for Rolling Stone as a senior critic, music columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Mademoiselle as well as being a regular contributor to GQ. She has also written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s Bazaar and US magazine.

She is based in Los Angeles, married, with one child.^[4]

[edit] Awards

In 2007, she won "Best Online Feature" from the New York Association of Black Journalists
In 2002, she won "Best Feature Writing" from the Gospel Music Association
In 2002, she won "Excellence in Journalism Award" from the National Arab American Journalists Association^[5]
In 2001, she was listed in Da Capo “Best Music Writing 2001” for her story West Bank Hard Core
In 1997, she was voted "Music Journalist of the Year" at the Music Journalism Awards
In 1996, she was "Best National Feature Story" honors at the Music Journalism Awards