Zeina Karam

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Zeina Karam is a Lebanese journalist with Associated Press (AP). Since 2022 she has been AP's deputy news director for Europe. [1]

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Karam gained a degree in political science and public administration from the American University of Beirut. She started covering the Middle East for AP in 1996. [1] In 2011 she was one of the first foreign reporters to enter Syria as the Arab Spring erupted. [2]

In 2014 she became AP Beirut bureau chief, overseeing text coverage of Lebanon and Syria. In 2016 she became news director for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. [1]

Karam was a contributor to the 2019 anthology Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Middle East. [2] Her contribution, reflecting on the experiences of those who saw Syria descend into civil war, asked the question "Did we do them all justice in our reporting?". [3]

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