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Anthony Shadid 
Shadid giving a talk at Harvard Law School in April 2009.Born 1968/1969 (age 42–43)[1]
Oklahoma City, OklahomaAlma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990) Occupation Journalist Employer The New York Times Awards Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 2004 and 2010
Anthony Shadid (born 1968/1969) is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut.[2][3] He has won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.Career
From 2003 to 2009 he was a staff writer for The Washington Post where he was an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before The Washington 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.[4]
In 2002, he was shot in the shoulder, allegedly by Israeli soldiers, while reporting for the Boston Globe in the West Bank.[5]
During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict he 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." [6]
On 16 March, 2011, Shadid and three colleagues were reported missing in Eastern Libya, having gone there to report on the uprising against the dictatorship of Col. Muammar Al-Ghaddafi.[7] On 18 March 2011, The New York Times reported that Libya agreed to free him and three colleagues: Stephen Farrell, Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks.[8] The Libyan government released the four journalists on 21 March 2011.[9]
Awards
Shadid has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 2004 and 2010, for his coverage of the Iraq War.[1] 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. Night Draws Near won the Ridenhour Book Prize for 2006. He has also won the 2004 Michael Kelly Award, as well as awards from the Overseas Press Club and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Personal life
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma of Lebanese descent,[10] he is a 1990 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[11] He is married to Nada Bakri, also a reporter for The New York Times.
Bibliography
- Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam. Westview Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8133-4018-7
- 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[12]
- Dove la notte non finisce. Piemme, 2006. ISBN 88-384-8639-5
Notes
- ^ a b The Pulitzer Prize
- ^ Shadid, Anthony (11 January 2010). "Allah – the Word". The New York Times. http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/allah-the-word/.
- ^ http://www.eandppub.com/2009/09/shadid-of-washington-post-jumps-to-new-york-times.html
- ^ The Washington Post staff page
- ^ "Reporter wounded by gunshot," 03/31/02. The Boston Globe.
- ^ Interview on Al Franken Show, Air America Radio, 1:25 PM, Eastern US time, 1 August 2006
- ^ / Boston Herald web portal Boston.com
- ^ Kirkpatrick, David (18 March 2011). "Libya Says It Will Release Times Journalists". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19journalists.html?_r=3. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (21 March 2011). "Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22times.html?hp. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ Anthony Shadi: Biography from the Pulitzer Prize website
- ^ Alum Shadid wins second Pulitzer Prize from a University of Wisconsin-Madison website
- ^ Christian Caryl, "What About the Iraqis?", The New York Review of Books (January 11, 2007) - review of Night Draws Near
External links
- 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
- Anthony Shadid: Tunisia Has "Electrified People Across the Arab World" - video report by Democracy Now!
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