Sonja Zekri (born 1967) is a German journalist and author. Her topics are Near East, Eastern Europe, culture and religion, among others.

Career

Born in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

, Zekri studied history and

Slavic languages The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the ...

at the

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction beg ...

. From 2001 she worked for the

Feuilleton A ''feuilleton'' (; a diminutive of french: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art critici ...

of the

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. Hist ...

(SZ). She participated in publishing a series in 17 entries ''Deutschland extrem'', which appeared first in the die zunächst in der SZ and then as a book in 2004. From 2008 to 2011 she was the correspondent of the SZ in Moscow. From April 2011 she was the correspondent in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metr ...

for both the SZ and the

Tages-Anzeiger ''Tages-Anzeiger'' (), also abbreviated ''Tagi'' or ''TA'', is a Swiss German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, Switzerland. History and profile The paper was first published under the name ''Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und ...

s, reporting from the Arabian region. From 2015 she has been the director, together with , the Feuilleton of the SZ.Impressum Süddeutsche Zeitung
retrieved 25 March 2015.

Selected publications

* Sonja Zekri, (ed.): ''Deutschland extrem - Reisen in eine unbekannte Republik.''

C. H. Beck Verlag C. H. BECK oHG, doing business as Publishers C. H. Beck (german: Verlag C. H. Beck), is a German publisher with its headquarters in Munich and a branch office in Frankfurt. The company was established in 1763. Historically, its headquarte ...

, Munich 2004, .

References

External links

Sonja Zekri: Deutschland extrem
(in German) single-generation.de
Rühle, Alex / Zekri, Sonja (ed): / Deutschland extrem - Reisen in eine unbekannte Republik
(in German) review of the book on buchinformationen.de * Sonja Zekri
"Wikipedia erfindet sich neu"
(in German) Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11 May 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zekri, Sonja German reporters and correspondents German women journalists Süddeutsche Zeitung people German newspaper journalists 1967 births Living people Writers from Dortmund