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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Arab Arab World Back East Go Journalist Just Knew Lebanese Life Meant Meant To Be Middle Middle East My Life One Thing Shaped The One Thing Thing Try Understand Wanted World

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I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Always Better Better Off Childhood Childhoods Great Had More Off Think Twisted Writers I Think

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I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Any Dying Risks Stories Story Taking Taking Risks Think Worth

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Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Always Art Bits Bits And Pieces Get Incomplete Journalism Pieces You

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On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Arab Arab World Call Career Correspondent Covering East Enjoy Entire Entire Career Flip Here Middle Middle East Myself Never Side Spent War World Would

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I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Activists Covered Government Government Officials Leaves Officials Often Phone Read Reporting Syria Talk Tea Think Try Way You I Think

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I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Away Because Doing Elderly Family Interviews Knew Lose Pass People Power Some Started Story Would

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The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: American Appreciate Bitterness Class Country Created Decade Done Eight Had How Invaded Iran Iraq Meant Middle Middle Class Out Sanctions Support Understanding War Wiped Without Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 26th, 1968

Died: February 16th, 2012

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