Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid (September 26, 1968 â€“ February 16, 2012) was a foreign correspondent for ''The New York Times'' based in Baghdad and Beirut who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010."Anthony Shadid, Reporter in the Middle East, Dies at 43"
by Margalit Fox. ''The New York Times'', February 16, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012.

Background

Anthony Shadid was born on September 26, 1968, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, of Lebanese Christian descent. In 1990, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison,Anthony Shadid: Biography
from the Pulitzer Prize website where he wrote for ''The Daily Cardinal'' student newspaper.

Career

From 2003 to 2009 Shadid was a staff writer for ''The Washington Post'' where he was an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. He previously 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.''The Washington Post'' staff page

In 2002, he was shot in the shoulder by an Israel sniper in Ramallah while reporting for the ''Boston Globe'' in the West Bank. The bullet also grazed his spine.

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. 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. The Libyan government released the four journalists on March 21, 2011.

Personal life and death

Shadid married Nada Bakri, also a reporter for ''The New York Times''; they had a son, Malik.
Shadid had a daughter, Laila, from his first marriage."Family in Seattle recalls foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid's empathy"
''The Sacramento Bee'', February 19, 2012.

Michael Shadid was his great uncle.

Shadid died at age 43 on February 16, 2012, from a "fatal asthma attack" while attempting to leave Syria.''The Atlantic''
The Things That Anthony Shadid Taught Me
February 17, 2012 Retrieved March 4, 2012. Shadid's smoking and extreme allergy to horses are believed to be the major contributing factors in causing his fatal asthma attack. His body was carried to Turkey by Tyler Hicks, a photographer for ''The New York Times''.â
"Anthony Shadid, Reporter in the Middle East, Dies at 43" by Rick Gladstone
. ''The New York Times'', February 16, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012.

Shadid's cousin, Dr. Edward Shadid of Oklahoma City, challenged the ''Times'' version of the death, and instead blamed the publication for forcing him into Syria.

Awards

* 2003: George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting
* 2004:
** Michael Kelly Award
** Overseas Press Club award
** American Society of Newspaper Editors award
** Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2004)
* 2006: Ridenhour Book Prize for ''Night Draws Near''
* 2010: Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2010)
* 2011: Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the American University of Beirut
* 2012:
** George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting
** Finalist for National Book Award (Nonfiction) and National Book Critics Circle Award, 2002)
* ''Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War'' (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005)

** ''Dove la notte non finisce'' ( Piemme, 2006)
* '' House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East'' (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)

* Award for Journalism Ethics

References

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*David Chambers

'' Saudi Aramco World'', March/April 2006 – feature article profiling Anthony Shadid, ''Newsweek
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

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