Zeina Karam is a Lebanese journalist with Associated Press (AP). Since 2022 she has been AP's deputy news director for Europe.[1]

Life

Karam gained a degree in political science and public administration from the American University of Beirut. She started covering the Middle East for AP in 1996.[1] In 2011 she was one of the first foreign reporters to enter Syria as the Arab Spring erupted.[2]

In 2014 she became AP Beirut bureau chief, overseeing text coverage of Lebanon and Syria. In 2016 she became news director for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.[1]

Karam was a contributor to the 2019 anthology Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Middle East.[2] Her contribution, reflecting on the experiences of those who saw Syria descend into civil war, asked the question "Did we do them all justice in our reporting?".[3]

Works

  • 'Syria Undone', in Hankir, Zahra, ed. (2019). Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Penguin. pp. 221-.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "AP appoints Lebanese journalist as Europe deputy news director". Arab News. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  2. 1 2 Haidrani, Salma (14 August 2019). "Our Women on the Ground: At last, recognising the heroism of Arab female journalists". The New Arab. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  3. ↑ Kjdrian, Paula (16 June 2022). "Book Review: Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World". Azad Archives. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
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