Nora Boustany

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Nora Naaman Boustany is a Lebanese-American journalist and educator known for her coverage of the Middle East and human rights issues. [1] [2]

Boustany worked for United Press International in Lebanon for two years following her graduate school education. [3] She had trouble getting a job in journalism initially in the 1970s because, as she was told by editors, she didn't have any experience and "they didn’t hire women." [4] She created a role for herself being a local expert, assisting well-known American and British correspondents who were in Beirut on short-term assignments. [4]

Boustany began freelancing for the Washington Post starting in 1979. [1] She was hired on as staff in 1988 at a time when many foreign correspondents had left Beirut for fear of being kidnapped. [4] In this situation, being female helped her, as she explained "It was believed...that it was safer for women because Islamic groups did not want to come in contact with females in a situation of captivity. We had tremendous access." [4] At the Post, she covered Lebanon’s war, Desert Storm, and the upheavals and struggles in Gaza and Algeria from her location in Beirut. [5] She was a correspondent in Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran, speaking four languages: English; Arabic; French; and German. [6] She wrote a column, Diplomatic Dispatches, about Washington's diplomatic community, that was published twice weekly. [7]

She won the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 1987 for her coverage of the plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. [8] [9] In 1992, she received a Distinguished Service award from the University of Wisconsin at Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. [10] She left the Washington Post in 2008 after a nearly 30-year career, taking an early retirement package when the Post cut its staffing by 10%. [11]

She was a Writer-in-Residence Fellow for the year 2009-2010 at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. [3] She currently teaches journalism at the American University of Beirut. [4] She serves on the board of directors of the Beirut Museum of Art. [12]

Early life and education

Boustany grew up in Beirut and has a twin sister and a brother. [6] She graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1975. [3] She earned her M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri in 1976. [1] She lives in Beirut. [13]

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