Nada Bakri - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Nada Bakri, 41, is a Lebanese journalist who covered the Middle East for more than a decade for newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Daily Star, an English-speaking daily published in Beirut. Bakri was based in Beirut and Baghdad throughout her career. She covered the 2006 July war between Israel and Hezbollah, violence in Iraq, and the Arab spring. Bakri also writes personal essays that regularly appear in major publications. She contributed to a book called “Our Women on the Ground” about her experience as a journalist working in the Middle East Bakri graduated from the Lebanese American University with a BA in journalism and received an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA with her son.

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Total articles 14

• Muslim Matchmaking Goes Online

  By Nada Bakri| New Lines Magazine Verified Diya’s black midi-dress hugged her tall, slim figure. Her hair, black and shiny, fell straight on her back, just above her waistline. In 4-inch strappy sandals, she stood still on the sidewalk, her arms crossed, watching clusters of people, couples and in groups, chatting. “I don’t want to be rude, but I am kind of tired of talking,” the 28-year-old New Yorker, who wanted to be identified only as Diya, said to a young man who approached her on the sidewalk.

  By Nada Bakri · New Lines Magazine

  Aug. 21, 2023

• Nada Bakri on Dealing With Losing Her Husband and Father

  By Nada Bakri| New Lines Magazine Verified The widow of journalist Anthony Shadid reflects on grief, love and the joy of dogs My dog Louis is the bane of my existence. He follows me around all day like my shadow. If I try to hug my son, he pushes us apart. If I sit next to him, he nestles himself right between us. When I tuck my son in at night, he jumps on the bed and, like a wolf protecting his pack, he growls, snarls and snaps, ready to bite. My son is amused, I am infuriated, and the words euthanize and adoption come to mind.

  By Nada Bakri · New Lines Magazine

  May. 31, 2023

• Preserving Food, Preserving Myself

  By Nada Bakri| Arab America@ This fall, the chores in my kitchen have become a way to stay connected to my Lebanese identity. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMESBY: NADA BAKRICAMBRIDGE, Mass. — I forced the last mini cucumber in a jar and poured brine over it: My mother’s recipe calls for half a cup of coarse sea salt and half a cup of vinegar for every 12 cups of water, boiled and then cooled to room temperature. I have always relied on my cups and spoons to measure my ingredients.

  By Nada Bakri · Arab America

  Oct. 31, 2020

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