Nada Bakri

Nada Bakri is a Lebanese American journalist who covered the Middle East for over a decade, covering events including the 2006 July War and the Arab Spring. She was also a contributor to the 2019 anthology Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Middle East .^[1]

Life

Bakri gained an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.^[2]

Based in Beirut and Baghdad, Bakri covered the Middle East for newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Daily Star.^[2]

She was married to the journalist Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria in 2012.^[3][4] She donated his papers to the American University of Beirut.^[5]

She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2]

Works

• 'Love and Loss in a Time of Revolution', in Hankir, Zahra, ed. (2019). Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Penguin.

References

1. Hankir, Zahra, ed. (2019). Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Penguin. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-525-50520-4.
2. "Nada Bakr". International Women's Media Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
3. "Nada Bakri on husband Anthony Shadid's death in Syria". April 16, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
4. Bakri, Nada (May 31, 2023). "Nada Bakri on Dealing With Losing Her Husband and Father". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
5. "Anthony Shadid's Daughter Follows In His Footsteps: 'Journalism Brings Me Closer To Him'". WBUR. November 26, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2023.