Hannah Allam (born 1977) is an American journalist and reporter.

Biography

Allam was born in Oklahoma to a Muslim family in 1977. Currently working for the Washington Post, Allam has a wide background within MSN outlets. Prior to 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 who is based in Washington, DC. Allam was the Middle East Bureau Chief ( Baghdad) for McClatchy Newspapers. Early in her career, Allam interned for '' The Washington Post''. She then became a staff reporter for the

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, from which McClatchy recruited her in 2003 to assist them with, and later to lead, their in-depth coverage of the Iraq War. She is fluent in English, French, and Arabic. She was raised in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, but she returned to the US to complete high school in

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, then she majored in journalism and was editor of the student newspaper at the University of Oklahoma. She was a 2008–2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Allam has served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Awards

* 1999, 1998–1999 University of Oklahoma, Division of Student Affairs, CSPA Gold Circle Awards: Personality Profile, first place * 2004, National Association of Black Journalists, 2004 Journalist of the Year Award.List of NABJ Past Award winners
/ref> * 2006, Overseas Press Club (with two of her Baghdad Bureau colleagues), Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad for "Iraq: America's Failing War." * 2008–2009, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University * 2009, 30th annual McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia

References

External links

Hannah Allam page, Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database)

C-Span video library with Hannah Allam, covers 2005, 2013

Articles from Baghdad by Hannah Allam

"working list of female interruptors" (of "the Men-Talk-War fest")..."for a wider, fuller conversation on Iraq"
* http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44680 1977 births Living people American newspaper reporters and correspondents American expatriates in Saudi Arabia American expatriates in the United Arab Emirates Iraq War and the media McClatchy publications Middle Eastern women Nieman Fellows PBS people University of Oklahoma alumni American women journalists American Arabic writers 21st-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1970s-stub