Anthony Shadid is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. Previously he was a Middle East Correspondent for The Washington Post. Since 9/11, he has reported from most of the countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank. He was one of the four Times journalists covering the fighting in eastern Libya who were reported missing on March 16, 2011 and were released by the Libyan government five days later.

In March 2003, before the US invasion, Shadid traveled to Iraq. He remained in Baghdad during the invasion, the fall of Saddam Hussein, and the war's aftermath. In 2005, he moved to Beirut, from where he has covered the rest of the Arab world. He has a fluency in Arabic and an understanding of Arab culture that gives him a rare access to, and a great empathy for, the people whose story he tells.

Shadid has received numerous awards throughout his career. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from Iraq. In 2007, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of the Lebanese-Israeli War. He was also the recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline writing and the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad. In 2003, he was awarded the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for a series of dispatches from the Middle East that he wrote during his tenure at The Boston Globe. In 1997, Shadid was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club for his work on "Islam's Challenge." The four-part series, published by the Associated Press in 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam. His most recent book is Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.

Shadid is Lebanese American, born in Oklahoma, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before working at The Post, he worked for The Boston Globe in Washington, covering diplomacy and the State Department. He began his career at the Associated Press in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles, and Cairo, where he worked as Middle East Correspondent from 1995 to 1999.

Topics

Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War

Dispatches from the Middle East: Current Reporting from the Frontlines

Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats & the New Politics of Islam

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