Zeina Karam is a Lebanese journalist with Associated Press (AP). Since 2022 she has been AP's deputy news director for Europe.[1]
Karam gained a degree in political science and public administration from the American University of Beirut. She started covering the Middle East for AP in 1996.[1] In 2011 she was one of the first foreign reporters to enter Syria as the Arab Spring erupted.[2]
In 2014 she became AP Beirut bureau chief, overseeing text coverage of Lebanon and Syria. In 2016 she became news director for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.[1]
Karam was a contributor to the 2019 anthology Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Middle East.[2] Her contribution, reflecting on the experiences of those who saw Syria descend into civil war, asked the question "Did we do them all justice in our reporting?".[3]