journalist

Anthony Shadid

أنتوني شديد

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Anthony Shadid: The Reporter Who Understood the Arab World

Anthony Shadid brought Arabic fluency, deep cultural knowledge, and exceptional empathy to his reporting from the Arab world. He was among the first to report from inside Syria after 2011. He died crossing the Syrian border in February 2012, at 43 — one of the war's first press casualties.

Biography

Anthony Shadid was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist of Lebanese heritage, widely regarded as one of the finest foreign correspondents of his generation. He reported from across the Arab world for the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and New York Times, winning two Pulitzer Prizes (2004 for Iraq coverage; 2010 for coverage of Iraq's reconstruction). He was among the first major journalists to report from Syria after the uprising began in 2011, producing deeply human accounts of the conflict at enormous personal risk. He died on February 16, 2012, near the Syrian-Turkish border — apparently from an acute asthma attack while trying to cross from Syria back to Turkey. He was 43 years old. His death deprived the Syria coverage of one of its most skilled voices at a critical moment.

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Born:1968-09-21

Place:Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Died:2012-02-16

Nationality:American (Lebanese heritage)