Anthony Shadid's Daughter Follows In His Footsteps: 'Journalism Brings Me Closer To Him'
Anthony Shadid’s daughter, Laila Shadid, is determined to follow her father into journalism and the Middle East.
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid was perhaps the most admired of his day.
“I think he was the most decorated foreign correspondent of his era,” journalist and teacher Rami Khouri says.
Both Shadid and Khouri reported extensively from the Middle East during their careers.
In 2012, while covering the civil war in Syria as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, Shadid . His body was carried into neighboring Turkey by photographer Tyler Hicks.
