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]
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]
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