By Kevin McCauley
Anthony Shadid, foreign correspondent for the New York Times, died Feb. 16 from an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. He was 43.
In Syria for a week, Shadid was working on a story about the Free Syrian Army and other opponents to the rule of president Bashar Al-Assad.
Jill Abramson, executive editor, told staffers via an email that “Anthony died as he lived – determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces.”
Shadid, a Lebanese American, reported from Middle East hotspot for nearly 20 years. He also reported for the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Associated Press. He joined the Times in 2009.
The Timesman covered the uprising in Egypt that led to the fall of the Mubarak government. He and three other Times reporters were kidnapped and held for a week by pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya.
His book, “House of Stone,” is to be published next month. It’s about Shadid’s experience in Lebanon after in 2006 after Israeli air attacks. |