Anas Baba

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Anas Baba
CitizenshipPalestinian
Alma materAl-Azhar University
OccupationPhotojournalist
Employer NPR

Anas Baba (born 1993/1994) is a Palestinian photojournalist from the Gaza Strip. He currently is a producer with American public broadcaster NPR, and has also previously worked with British newspaper The Guardian , French agency Agence France-Presse, and American newspaper The Wall Street Journal . [1] As of October 2025, Baba is covering the Gaza war from within the Gaza Strip.

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Career

Baba began working as a freelance journalist at age 18, while studying journalism and English literature at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. [1]

Baba has worked with NPR since 2019, [2] and was hired as a producer in 2024. [1] Baba has expressed that he has felt supported by the NPR team throughout the ongoing Gaza war. [1]

He covered the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, [3] taking a photo of rockets that became emblematic of the crisis. [1] [4]

He has been covering the ongoing Gaza war since 2023. In the first weeks of the war, he reported from Gaza City, producing stories on families sheltering in hospitals and people fleeing the city on foot. [5] He later evacuated from Gaza City to Rafah, where he lived with 210 members of his extended family in a four-story home. In December 2023, he moved to Khan Yunis to report on the Nasser Hospital before returning to Rafah. After the Israeli army's invasion of Rafah, Baba lived briefly in Bureij and Al-Zawaideh. In June 2024, he reported on Israeli military operations in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in which at least 276 people were killed. [1]

During the war, Baba has often traveled by himself, but has socialized with other journalists, sometimes eating communal meals together. [1]

Personal and early life

Baba was born in 1993 or 1994. [1] He grew up with his extended family in Rafah, and was exposed to photojournalism early on through his father. [1]

Baba's father left Gaza for Egypt in 2018, after being shot by an Israeli sniper while covering the March of Return; he now works for the AFP in Egypt. In November 2023, NPR assisted Baba in evacuating his mother and siblings to Egypt; from there, they secured visas to move to Belgium. [1]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "For NPR's Anas Baba, covering the war in Gaza also means living it". The Washington Post. 2025-03-11. Archived from the original on 2025-03-11. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  2. 1 2 3 "Anas Baba". NPR. 2025-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  3. ↑ Baba, Anas (2021-05-28). "Gaza Notebook: The Surreal Scenes I Witnessed During 'The Worst Eid Ever'". NPR. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  4. ↑ Hajjaji, Hanya (2021-05-14). "Iron Dome Photo Shows Israeli Missiles Countering Rockets From Gaza". Newsweek . Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  5. ↑ Wagner, Laura (2023-10-16). "It's becoming impossible to report from Gaza". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2023-10-16. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  6. ↑ "Guardian wins Amnesty media award for best use of digital media". The Guardian. 2022-05-06. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  7. ↑ Safi, Michael; Yusuf, Courtney; Kacoutié, Axel; Maynard, Phil; Bland, Archie; Yusuf, Presented by Michael Safi with Anas Baba; produced by Courtney; Maynard, Axel Kacoutié; executive producers Phil (2021-09-06). "One hour to escape: the race to get out of a Gaza tower before an Israeli airstrike". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-08-11.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ "New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio win awards in National Press Club journalism contest". National Press Club. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  9. ↑ Baba, Anas; Estrin, Daniel (2024-03-09). "Cake in the time of war, in Gaza". NPR .
  10. ↑ "The War in Gaza Coverage". duPont-Columbia Awards . Columbia University . Retrieved 2025-08-11.
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