Nada Bakri
{{Short description|Lebanese American journalist}}
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 .{{cite book | editor-first=Zahra | editor-last=Hankir | editor-link=Zahra Hankir | title=Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World | publisher=Penguin | year=2019 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-hh5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 | page=274| isbn=978-0-525-50520-4 }}
Life
Bakri holds a Master of Science degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She has reported on the Middle East for various publications for more than a decade, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Daily Star, while based in Beirut and Baghdad. Bakri currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.{{cite web | title=Nada Bakr | website=International Women's Media Foundation | url=https://www.iwmf.org/community/nada-bakri/ | access-date=December 27, 2023 }}
She was married to journalist Anthony Shadid, who passed away in Syria in 2012; following his death, she donated his papers to the American University of Beirut.{{cite web | title=Nada Bakri on husband Anthony Shadid's death in Syria | date=April 16, 2023 | url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/04/17/daily-circuit-nada-bakri-anothony-shadid | access-date=December 27, 2023 }}{{cite web | first=Nada | last=Bakri | title=Nada Bakri on Dealing With Losing Her Husband and Father | website=New Lines Magazine | date=May 31, 2023 | url=https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/nada-bakri-on-dealing-with-losing-her-husband-and-father/ | access-date=December 27, 2023 }}{{cite web | title=Anthony Shadid's Daughter Follows In His Footsteps: 'Journalism Brings Me Closer To Him' | website=WBUR | date=November 26, 2019 | url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/11/26/anthony-shadid-journalist-daughter-middle-east | access-date=December 27, 2023 }}
Works
- 'Love and Loss in a Time of Revolution', in {{cite book | editor-first=Zahra | editor-last=Hankir | editor-link=Zahra Hankir | title=Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World | publisher=Penguin | year=2019 }}