Hannah Allam Explained

Hannah Allam
Birth Place:Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Occupation:Journalist

Hannah Allam (born 1977)[1] is an Egyptian American journalist and reporter who frequently covers the Middle East.

Biography

Allam was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[2] to a Muslim family in 1977. She was raised in the US as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, returning to the US to complete high school in Oklahoma. In college, she majored in journalism and was editor of the student newspaper at the University of Oklahoma.[3] She is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

As of November 2020, she has worked for The Washington Post. Allam has a wide background within MSN outlets. Prior to her position at The Washington Post, she was a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR, she was a national correspondent for BuzzFeed News based in Washington, DC. Allam was the Middle East Bureau Chief (Baghdad) for McClatchy Newspapers.[4] [5] Early in her career, Allam interned for The Washington Post. She then became a staff reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from which McClatchy recruited her in 2003 to assist them with their in-depth coverage of the Iraq War. She worked for McClatchy as a war correspondent in Baghdad even during her 2010 pregnancy, although the military would not let her board helicopters once her belly started to show.[6]

She was a 2008–2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.[7] [8]

Having been partially raised in the Middle East, as well as having Egyptian heritage, allowed her unique opportunities to converse with women in Iraq during Middle Eastern conflicts. She contributed a chapter about her experiences to Zahra Hankir's book "Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World" which came out in 2019.[9]

Allam has served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize in 2018,[10] 2019,[11] 2021,[12] and 2022.[13] [14]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Allam. Hannah. Oklahoma reporter strives for truth, safety in Iraq. October 27, 2023. NewsOK. November 21, 2004.
  2. Web site: Hannah Allam joins the National Security team to cover domestic terrorism . The Washington Post. 2020-11-03 . 2023-09-18.
  3. News: OU Daily marks centennial with first hall of fame class . . 2016-10-08 . 2023-09-18.
  4. Web site: 2014-08-30 . dead . Journalist page for Hannah Allam for McClatchy Newspapers . https://web.archive.org/web/20140824093333/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/hannah-allam/ . 2014-08-24 .
  5. Web site: Correspondent for Iraq War to give 30th McGill Lecture. UGA today . University of Georgia. 23 November 2014 . 8 June 2009.
  6. News: It's A Boy: War Reporter's Baby Shower In Baghdad . . Garcia-Navarro . Lulu . 2010-07-06 . 2023-09-18.
  7. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101985/Reporting-the-Iraq-War-Whose-Truth-Is-Being-Told.aspx Nieman Reports, Winter 2009 | Online Exclusives, Access September 6, 2014
  8. http://erniesuggsharvard.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/hannah-allam/ Journalist Ernie Suggs recalls Hannah Allam as 2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard
  9. News: How Arab women are changing the face of journalism in the Middle East . PBS NewsHour. 2019-08-26 . 2023-09-18.
  10. Web site: Foundation . Heising-Simons . Two Freelance Journalists Awarded $100,000 Each for Elevating Stories of Black Americans, Immigrant Families . 2022-07-14 . www.prnewswire.com . en.
  11. Web site: 2019-02-05 . Freelance Journalists Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and Abe Streep Named 2019 Recipients of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize . 2022-07-14 . www.businesswire.com . en.
  12. Web site: PRNewswire . Two Freelance Journalists Awarded $100,000 Each for Elevating Stories of Black Americans, Immigrant Families . 2022-07-14 . Benzinga . English.
  13. Web site: American Mosaic Journalism Prize . 2022-07-14 . Heising-Simons Foundation . en-US.
  14. News: Castillo . Amaris . 28 April 2022 . Why this family foundation gives out $100,000 of unrestricted money to select freelance journalists . Poynter. . 19 May 2022.
  15. Web site: 1998–99 AWARDS, OU Student Media, University of Oklahoma . 2014-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129083134/http://www.studentmedia.ou.edu/awards9899.html . 2014-11-29 . dead .
  16. https://www.pbs.org/now/politics/allam.html 'NOW with Bill Moyers' for 10.01.04, Interview with Hannah Allam, McClatchy Bureau Chief for Baghdad, PBS
  17. http://www.nabj.org/?page=pastspecial List of NABJ Past Award winners

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