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 .[1]
Bakri gained an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.[2]
Based in Beirut and Baghdad, Bakri covered the Middle East for newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Daily Star.[2]
She was married to the journalist Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria in 2012.[3][4] She donated his papers to the American University of Beirut.[5]
She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]