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3/3/08

Washington Post Writer To Discuss Middle East In Talk At SLU

CANTON - Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post, will give a talk on "The Long War: Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East" on Wednesday, March 12, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden at St. Lawrence University. The event, part of the Contemporary Issues Forum, is open to the public, free of charge.

Since September 11, 2001, Shadid has reported from most countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank. In March 2003, weeks before the U.S. invasion, he traveled to Iraq, his third visit there. He remained in Baghdad during the invasion, the fall of Saddam Hussein and the aftermath. In 2005, he moved to Beirut, from where he has covered the rest of the Arab world.

Before the Post, Shadid worked for the Boston Globe in Washington, covering diplomacy and the State Department. He began his career at the Associated Press, working in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles and Cairo, where he was a Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 1999. He is a native of Oklahoma City, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Shadid was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007 for his coverage of the Lebanese-Israeli war a year earlier. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from Iraq. That year, he was also the recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline writing and the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad. In 2003, Shadid was awarded the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for a series of stories from the Middle East while at the Globe. In 1997, he was awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club for his work on "Islam's Challenge." The four-part series, published by the AP in December 1996, formed the basis of his book, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam, published by Westview Press in 2000. His second book, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, was published in 2005 by Henry Holt.

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