In a June 23 appearance before the annual convention of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Ward 2 council member said Anthony Shadid’s former employer, The New York Times, is partly to blame for the war correspondent’s death earlier this year. Ed Shadid told the Washington, D.C., audience that Anthony Shadid had a heated conversation with […]
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
The loss was as unexpected as it was tragic. Shadid, born and raised here, was a true savant: a fluent speaker of Arabic whose ambition for storytelling heeded few warnings of danger. He caught a sniper’s bullet with his shoulder in the West Bank in 2002 and survived a well-publicized kidnapping in Libya last spring, […]