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Nada Bakri

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Cambridge
As seen in: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Cooking the Books with Frances Cook, ARA, New Lines Magazine, Revista de Prensa "Almendrón", The California Courier
Covers:  Politics, Arts and Culture, Environment, Conflict

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Nada Bakri’s Biography

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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 “O…

Nada Bakri’s Journalist Portfolio

Opinion | Preserving Food, Preserving Myself (Published 2020)

Opinion | Preserving Food, Preserving Myself (Published 2020)

This fall, the chores in my kitchen have become a way to stay connected to my Lebanese identity. Ms. Bakri is…

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Opinion | What the Arab Spring Cost Me (Published 2019)

Opinion | What the Arab Spring Cost Me (Published 2019)

My husband and I met while we were both reporters covering the changes taking place in the Middle East. And t…

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Damascus Avoids Blood of Uprising, but Not Pain (Published 2012)

Damascus Avoids Blood of Uprising, but Not Pain (Published 2012)

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The bloody uprising that has coursed through Syria has begun to upend daily life in Damascu…

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Sanctions Pose Growing Threat to Syria's Assad (Published 2011)

Sanctions Pose Growing Threat to Syria's Assad (Published 2011)

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Syrian economy is buckling under the pressure of sanctions by the West and a continuing…

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Broadcasting Hama Ruins, Syria Says It Has Ended Revolt (Published 2011)

Broadcasting Hama Ruins, Syria Says It Has Ended Revolt (Published 2011)

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria's state news media broadcast stark images of the destruction in the besieged city of …

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Articles

Far From the Land of Good News

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By Nada Bakri
| New Lines Magazine
There is a patch of road snaking through Jabal Amel in southern Lebanon that makes you forget, briefly, what you were carrying when you got in the car. In spring, the fields on either side of the road run riot with wildflowers, poppies and anemones pushing through the limestone, red and insistent. Cyclamens appear where the mountain closes in and the light turns cooler, tucked into shadow like something that prefers not to be seen. The warm air coming through the window smells of wild sage.
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La paradoxa del Líban

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By Nada Bakri
| ARA
Periodista i assagista 5 min He estat pendent de la casa que tinc dalt d’un turó a Marjayoun, al sud del Líban, des que els combats entre Israel i Hezbollah, el grup armat libanès, van esclatar després del 7 d’octubre del 2023. Cada setmana truco al cuidador de la casa per telèfon. Es pot passar per la carretera? Hi ha aigua corrent? La casa encara aguanta? Ell m’explica el que pot veure. Jo li demano que faci el que pugui.
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Lunes, 16 de marzo de 2026

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By Julio Martinez, Nada Bakri
| Revista de Prensa "Almendrón"
Hace cuatro años, las elecciones de Castilla y León abrieron una inesperada crisis en el Partido Popular. La estrategia de Pablo Casado quedó cuestionada después de que no se cumplieran las expectativas que habían motivado el adelanto electoral en aquella comunidad. En vez de obtener la mayoría incontestable que esperaban, los populares quedaron abocados a entenderse con Vox para formar gobierno.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

environment beat

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How is social media changing news?

Positively: find sources and information and create connections. Negatively: it makes it easier to spread rumor and fake news.

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