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The Late Anthony Shadid on Covering Arab Spring

Watch Anthony Shadid's remarkable presentation at Rice University last fall, on his award-winning coverage of the promise and perils of last year's upheaval in the region.

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid, one of the four New York Times journalists, who had been captured by Libyan forces while covering the conflict there, poses at the Turkish embassy in Tripoli, in this undated handout released March 21, 2011. — REUTERS/Turkish Foreign Ministry/Handout

 

The media world mourns the loss of Anthony Shadid, the courageous and gifted Pulitzer-Prize winning Lebanese-American journalist who devoted his professional life to telling the stories of the Middle East. Mr. Shadid spoke in Houston at Rice University late last year about his eyewitness reporting on the Arab revolutions that have swept across the Middle East last year. This was part of the Arab American Educational Foundation sponsored lecture series on "The Arab World: History, Politics and Culture." Watch Mr. Shadid's remarks below.

 

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