Jane arraf age

Jane Arraf covers Egypt, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East for NPR News.

Arraf joined NPR in 2016 after two decades of reporting from and about the region for CNN, NBC, the Christian Science Monitor, PBS Newshour, and Al Jazeera English. She has previously been posted to Baghdad, Amman, and Istanbul, along with Washington, DC, New York, and Montreal.

She has reported from Iraq since the 1990s. For several years, Arraf was the only Western journalist based in Baghdad. She reported on the war in Iraq in 2003 and covered live the battles for Fallujah, Najaf, Samarra, and Tel Afar. She has also covered India, Pakistan, Haiti, Bosnia, and Afghanistan and has done extensive magazine writing.

Arraf is a former Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Her awards include a Peabody for PBS NewsHour, an Overseas Press Club citation, and inclusion in a CNN Emmy.

Arraf studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa and began her career at Reuters.

Palestinian-Canadian journalist

Jane Arraf (Arabic: جاين عراف) is a Palestinian-Canadian journalist. Until August 2023, she served as the Baghdad bureau chief of The New York Times.^[1][2] She previously worked for the Christian Science Monitor^[3] and as CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent.

Education

Arraf studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.^[1][4]

Career

Arraf began her career at the Reuters^[5] agency where she was a correspondent in Montreal, Canada, an editor in New York and Washington, and a reporter/producer for Reuters Financial Television (RFTV) in Washington. She covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the United States Department of the Treasury. From 1990 to 1993, Arraf was Reuters Bureau Chief in Jordan.^[4] She has covered Iraq since 1991.^[6]

Arraf joined CNN in 1998 as Baghdad Bureau Chief. After the Gulf War, she was the only Western correspondent in Iraq for several years.^[5][4] There s

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