Lindsey Snell | |
|---|---|
 Snell in April 2021 | |
| Born | Daytona Beach, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, filmmaker |
| Website | lindseysnelljournalist |
Lindsey Snell is an American journalist covering conflicts and crises in the Middle East and North Africa. [1] [2]
Snell's reporting about Syria and Iraq has been featured on MSNBC. [2]
In 2011, Snell produced the feature-length documentary, Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja , which premiered at the 2011 SXSW festival. [3] [4] [5]
Snell was an associate producer on the feature-length documentaries Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded, Limelight which premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. [6] [7]
She served as a researcher on short films documentaries 30 for 30 aired by ESPN such as The U (2009), [8] Broke (2012) [9] and Collision Course: The Murder of Don Aronow (2013). [10] [3] [11]
In July 2016, while working, Snell was kidnapped by Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Aleppo, Syria. She escaped from the group after more than 2 weeks in captivity. [12] After crossing the border from Syria to Turkey, she was arrested by Turkish authorities on August 6, and imprisoned for 67 days at İskenderun and Hatay high security prisons, during which time Turkish media accused her of being a CIA agent and charged her with violating a military zone. [13] [14] Snell was released in October 2016. [15] [16] In 2018, while traveling to Baghdad, Iraq, Turkey attempted unsuccessfully to have Snell arrested via an Interpol diffusion notice. [17]
A piece Snell produced [18] for Vocativ about a girls' school in besieged Aleppo, Syria won an Edward R. Murrow Award in the Hard News category in 2016. [19]
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