Deborah Amos

Deborah Amos, Goldsmith Fellow, covers Iraq on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She returned to NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC’s Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. Prior to her work with ABC News, Amos spent 16 years with NPR, most recently as the London Bureau Chief. Previously she was based in Amman, Jordan, as an NPR foreign correspondent. Amos has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a Breakthru Award, and she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She received widespread recognition for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991. She is the author of Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East and Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World. Her research at the Center documented and analyzed the emergence of new media outlets in Iraq.

For the First Time, Women Elected to Municipal Councils in Saudi Arabia

December 14, 2015

December 14, 2015 — Deborah Amos, former fellow and NPR international correspondent, covers this past weekend’s elections in Saudi Arabia. Listen on NPR.

Deborah Amos: The Shape Of Extremist Ambitions In Iraq And Beyond

July 25, 2014

Former Fellow Deborah Amos, author of Eclipse of the Sunnis, talks to NPR’s Melissa Block about the extremist vision for establishing a new Sunni caliphate, as well as what it might look like if a group like ISIS managed to do so: The Shape Of Extremist Ambitions In Iraq And Beyond

Deborah Amos and Alex S. Jones

Facts and Propaganda at War in Syria’s Chaotic Media Landscape, says NPR’s Deborah Amos

April 15, 2014

April 15, 2014 – Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for NPR, said that in Syria, “there are at least five different wars” going on simultaneously. “It is the most complicated of all the conflicts in the Middle East,” yet the media is criticized for not getting it right.

Social media used by regime and activists in Syrian revolution, says NPR’s Deborah Amos

October 17, 2012

October 17, 2012 – More than any other uprising in the Middle East, the Syrian uprising has made use of social media to shape and influence the narrative on both sides, said Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for National Public Radio. In 18 months of covering the Syrian revolution, she said that “young social media

Confusion, Contradiction and Irony: The Iraqi Media in 2010

April 25, 2010

Deborah Amos Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2010 Correspondent, National Public Radio Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Abstract After the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Iraq’s news media environment transformed almost overnight from the tightly controlled propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein’s rule into one of the most diverse and unrestricted news environments

Iraq is ‘shedding its diversity,’ says NPR’s Deborah Amos

February 16, 2010

February 16, 2010 — Deborah Amos, Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center and foreign correspondent for NPR, recounted the recent political history of Iraq at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event titled “Sectarianism and a Post-Election Iraq.” Amos decided to be a “stay-behind reporter and continue looking at Iraq” after much U.S. attention turned to

For the First Time, Women Elected to Municipal Councils in Saudi Arabia

December 14, 2015

December 14, 2015 — Deborah Amos, former fellow and NPR international correspondent, covers this past weekend’s elections in Saudi Arabia. Listen on NPR.

Deborah Amos: The Shape Of Extremist Ambitions In Iraq And Beyond

July 25, 2014

Former Fellow Deborah Amos, author of Eclipse of the Sunnis, talks to NPR’s Melissa Block about the extremist vision for establishing a new Sunni caliphate, as well as what it might look like if a group like ISIS managed to do so: The Shape Of Extremist Ambitions In Iraq And Beyond

Deborah Amos and Alex S. Jones

Facts and Propaganda at War in Syria’s Chaotic Media Landscape, says NPR’s Deborah Amos

April 15, 2014

April 15, 2014 – Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for NPR, said that in Syria, “there are at least five different wars” going on simultaneously. “It is the most complicated of all the conflicts in the Middle East,” yet the media is criticized for not getting it right.

Social media used by regime and activists in Syrian revolution, says NPR’s Deborah Amos

October 17, 2012

October 17, 2012 – More than any other uprising in the Middle East, the Syrian uprising has made use of social media to shape and influence the narrative on both sides, said Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for National Public Radio. In 18 months of covering the Syrian revolution, she said that “young social media

Confusion, Contradiction and Irony: The Iraqi Media in 2010

April 25, 2010

Deborah Amos Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2010 Correspondent, National Public Radio Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Abstract After the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Iraq’s news media environment transformed almost overnight from the tightly controlled propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein’s rule into one of the most diverse and unrestricted news environments

Iraq is ‘shedding its diversity,’ says NPR’s Deborah Amos

February 16, 2010

February 16, 2010 — Deborah Amos, Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center and foreign correspondent for NPR, recounted the recent political history of Iraq at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event titled “Sectarianism and a Post-Election Iraq.” Amos decided to be a “stay-behind reporter and continue looking at Iraq” after much U.S. attention turned to

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