Community is everything, home is everything, if you have lost your own
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab-American journalist looks at the Iraq war from the perspective of ordinary Iraqi citizens--representing a variety of religious and political beliefs from all levels of society--confronted by the dislocations, hardships, tragedies, and harsh realities of the conflict. Re[...]
"Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." -- Philip Caputo, "Washington Post"
In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's o[...]
Last spring, when Anthony Shadid--one of four "New York Times" reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted--was freed, he went home. Not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma where he was raised by his Lebanese-American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled w[...]
In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. When he was freed, he went home. Not to Boston or Beirut where he lived or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled. Instead[...]