Rania Abouzeid

Rania Abouzeid is a Lebanese Australian journalist who has extensively covered the war in Syria.

Biography
Rania Abouzeid was born in New Zealand to Lebanese parents. She was raised in Australia regularly visiting Beirut to see family during holidays. Abouzeid attended the University of Melbourne, Australia. Since then she has worked for the New Yorker, TIME, Politico, The Guardian and many other publications. Abouzeid is based in Beirut. In 2014 her story The Jihad next door won a George Polk award as well as the Michael Kelly Award. Abouzeid won the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism in 2013. As well as her print work, Abouzeid has created documentaries, her first being Syria: Behind Rebel Lines. She has also written books about the conflict. Abouzeid has been awarded fellowships from the European Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard, Columbia and New America. Her first book won the Cornelius Ryan Award.

Books

 * No Turning Back. Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria, 2018
 * Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria, 2020