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Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times (and before that for the Boston Globe and the Washington Post) has died at 43. He was in Syria, trying to chase down some of the truth about that roiled country, when he apparently succumbed to an asthma attack. Shadid was renowned not only for his bravery in a harsh environment but also for the fairness and generosity of his approach and the eloquence of his writing. He had won a Pulitzer in 2004 for his reporting from Iraq, and he earned lavish praise for his 2006 book Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War. He lived in Beirut and had covered the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The talk he presented at Georgetown University just afterward can be seen on C-SPAN’s Video Library. It is revelatory of the special personality that has now been lost to the world. May his family be comforted in some small measure by their memories of this remarkable man.
Middle East Policy has been one of the world’s most cited publications on the region since its inception in 1982, and our Breaking Analysis series makes high-quality, diverse analysis available to a broader audience.
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Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times (and before that for the Boston Globe and the Washington Post) has died at 43. He was in Syria, trying to chase down some of the truth about that roiled country, when he apparently succumbed to an asthma attack. Shadid was renowned not only for his bravery in a harsh environment but also for the fairness and generosity of his approach and the eloquence of his writing. He had won a Pulitzer in 2004 for his reporting from Iraq, and he earned lavish praise for his 2006 book Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War. He lived in Beirut and had covered the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The talk he presented at Georgetown University just afterward can be seen on C-SPAN’s Video Library. It is revelatory of the special personality that has now been lost to the world. May his family be comforted in some small measure by their memories of this remarkable man.