Anthony Shadid
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| Born | September 26, 1968 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| Died | February 16, 2012 (aged 43) Syria |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The New York Times |
| Known for | Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Spouse | Nada Bakri |
| Children | two |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 2004 and 2010 |
Anthony Shadid (September 26, 1968 – February 16, 2012) was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut.[1][2] He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.
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[edit] Career
From 2003 to 2009 he was a staff writer for The Washington Post where he was an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before The Washington Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for The Boston Globe before joining the Post's foreign desk.[3][4]
In 2002, he was shot in the shoulder by what he believed to be an Israel sniper in Ramallah while reporting for the Boston Globe in the West Bank.[5] [6]
On March 16, 2011, Shadid and three colleagues were reported missing in Eastern Libya, having gone there to report on the uprising against the dictatorship of Col. Muammar Al-Ghaddafi.[7] On March 18, 2011, The New York Times reported that Libya agreed to free him and three colleagues: Stephen Farrell, Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks.[8] The Libyan government released the four journalists on March 21, 2011.[9]
[edit] Awards
Shadid twice won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, in 2004 and 2010, for his coverage of the Iraq War.[10] His experiences in Iraq were the subject for his 2005 book Night Draws Near, an empathetic look at how the war has impacted the Iraqi people beyond liberation and insurgency. Night Draws Near won the Ridenhour Book Prize for 2006. He won the 2004 Michael Kelly Award, as well as journalism prizes from the Overseas Press Club and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Shadid was a 2011 recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the American University of Beirut.[11] He won the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 2003 and in 2012 for his work in 2011.[12]
[edit] Personal life
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma of Lebanese descent, he was a 1990 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[13][14] He was married to Nada Bakri, also a reporter for the New York Times. They have a son, Malik. Shadid has a daughter, Laila, from his first marriage.[15]
[edit] Death
Shadid died on February 16, 2012 from an acute asthma attack while attempting to leave Syria on horseback. He appears to have had an allergic reaction to the horses. "He was walking behind some horses," said his father. "He's more allergic to those than anything else—and he had an asthma attack."[16] His body was carried to Turkey by Tyler Hicks, a photographer for The New York Times.[2][17]
[edit] Bibliography
- Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam. Westview Press (2002) ISBN 0-8133-4018-7
- Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War. New York: Henry Holt and Company (2005) ISBN 0-8050-7602-6[18]
- Dove la notte non finisce. Piemme (2006) ISBN 88-384-8639-5
- House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 27, 2012) ISBN 978-0547134666
[edit] Notes
- ^ Shadid, Anthony (January 11, 2010). "Allah – the Word". New York Times. http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/allah-the-word/.
- ^ a b "Anthony Shadid, Reporter in the Middle East, Dies at 43" by Margalit Fox. New York Times, February 16, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
- ^ The Washington Post staff page
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9089176/Anthony-Shadid.html
- ^ "Reporter wounded by gunshot," March 31, 2002. The Boston Globe.
- ^ http://www.radioopensource.org/anthony-shadid-questions-a-reporter-asks-himself "Anthony Shadid: Questions a Reporter Asks Himself," April 23, 2010. Radio Open Source. See 41:50 for Anthony Shadid quote.
- ^ / Boston Herald web portal Boston.com
- ^ Kirkpatrick, David (March 18, 2011). "Libya Says It Will Release Times Journalists". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19journalists.html?_r=3. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
- ^ Peters, Jeremy W. (March 21, 2011). "Freed Times Journalists Give Account of Captivity". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22times.html?hp. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- ^ The Pulitzer Prize
- ^ Anthony Shadid named AUB Honorary Doctorate
- ^ http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9SV90DO0.htm
- ^ Anthony Shadid: Biography from the Pulitzer Prize website
- ^ "Alum Shadid wins second Pulitzer Prize" from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication website
- ^ "Family in Seattle recalls foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid's empathy" "The Sacramento Bee", Feb 19, 2012 [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ "Anthony Shadid, Reporter in the Middle East, Dies at 43" by Rick Gladstone. New York Times, February 16, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
- ^ Christian Caryl, "What About the Iraqis?", The New York Review of Books, January 11, 2007, review of Night Draws Near
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Anthony Shadid collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Pulitzer Prize winning work at The Washington Post
- Anthony Shadid 1968–2012, pieces written for the Associated Press
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Anthony Shadid on Charlie Rose
- Works by or about Anthony Shadid in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2004 and 2010 – citation, works, biography, jury
- David Chambers, "Calling Helen Thomas", Saudi Aramco World, March/April 2006 – feature article profiling Anthony Shadid, Newsweek's Lorraine Ali and NBC's Hoda Kotb
- Amy Goodman, Anthony Shadid: Tunisia Has "Electrified People Across the Arab World", Democracy Now!, January 18, 2011 – video report
- Terry Gross, "A Foreign Correspondent Reflects On The Arab Spring", Fresh Air, December 21, 2011 – interview with Anthony Shadid
- 1968 births
- 2012 deaths
- People from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- The Boston Globe people
- The Washington Post people
- War correspondents
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners
- American people of Lebanese descent
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- American journalists of Arab descent
- The New York Times writers
- Deaths from asthma
- Journalists killed while covering the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising
