Zahra Hankir
Zahra Hankir | |
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| Occupation(s) | Journalist and editor |
Zahra Hankir (Arabic زهرة حنكير) is a Lebanese-British journalist and editor.[1]
Education
Hankir has lived between Lebanon and the United Kingdom and studied politics at the American University of Beirut and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester.[2] She won a Scripps Howard Fellowship to attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[3]
Career
Hankir worked for Bloomberg News in Dubai during the Arab Spring, covering the economy and markets.[4] She writes about culture in the Middle East and her journalism has been featured in news publications such as BBC News, VICE News, Al Jazeera English, Literary Hub, Roads & Kingdoms[5] and gal-dem,[6] as well as the Los Angeles Times.[7]
In March 2020 she appeared in a panel discussion at Adelaide Writers' Week, along with Omani novelist Johka Alharthi and Iranian-American journalist Azadeh Moaveni.[8]
Works
Her first book, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World,[9] featuring a foreword by Christiane Amanpour, was published by Penguin Books on 6 August 2019 in the US[10] and by Harvill Secker on 8 August 2019 in the UK.[11] It was described by Dwight Garner of the New York Times as “A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that rewrites the hoary rules of the foreign correspondent playbook, deactivating the old clichés”[12] and by NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson as a book that will appeal to “readers of all genders and backgrounds who want to broaden their understanding of the Arab world".[13]
In an interview with VICE News, Hankir said without the reporting of the Arab world’s women journalists: “the story of the region and its many nuances would be incomplete”.[14]
References
- ^ "Our Women on the Ground With Zahra Hankir". Stratfor. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Zahra Hankir | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Wally, Maxine; Wally, Maxine (6 August 2019). "How Arab Women Journalists See Life in the Middle East". WWD. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Our Women on the Ground: 9780143133414 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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- ^ "Immigrants are reviving Paterson, N.J., from its difficult past". Los Angeles Times. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "The Challenge of Change: Women's lives in the Middle East". Adelaide Festival (Writers' Week). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ Our women on the ground : essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world. Hankir, Zahra,, Amanpour, Christiane,, Al-Ghoul, Asmaa, 1982-, Karam, Zeina,, Khalaf, Roula,, Malas, Nour. New York, New York. 2019. ISBN 9780143133414. OCLC 1065947977.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Our Women on the Ground: 9780143133414 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Hankir, Zahra. "Our Women on the Ground". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (29 July 2019). "Women Rewriting the Rules of Reporting in the Arab World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "'Our Women On The Ground' Unites Stories From Female Journalists In The Arab World". NPR.org. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Ettachfini, Leila (8 August 2019). "When the Conflict Zone You're Reporting on Is Home". Vice. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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