Sonja Zekri (born 1967) is a German journalist and author. Her topics are Near East, Eastern Europe, culture and religion, among others.
Career
Born in
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...
, Zekri studied history and
Slavic languages at the
Ruhr University Bochum
The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
. From 2001 she worked for the
Feuilleton of the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat.
History ...
(SZ). She participated in publishing a series in 17 entries ''Deutschland extrem'', which appeared first in the die zunächst in der SZ and then as a book in 2004. From 2008 to 2011 she was the correspondent of the SZ in Moscow. From April 2011 she was the correspondent in
Cairo for both the SZ and the
Tages-Anzeigers, reporting from the Arabian region.
From 2015 she has been the director, together with , the Feuilleton of the SZ.
Impressum Süddeutsche Zeitung
retrieved 25 March 2015.
Selected publications
* Sonja Zekri, (ed.): ''Deutschland extrem - Reisen in eine unbekannte Republik.'' C. H. Beck
Verlag C. H. BECK oHG, doing business as Publishers C. H. Beck (german: Verlag C. H. Beck), is a German publisher with its headquarters in Munich and a branch office in Frankfurt. The company was established in 1763. Historically, its headquarte ...
, Munich 2004, .
References
External links
Sonja Zekri: Deutschland extrem
(in German) single-generation.de
Rühle, Alex / Zekri, Sonja (ed): / Deutschland extrem - Reisen in eine unbekannte Republik
(in German) review of the book on buchinformationen.de
* Sonja Zekri
"Wikipedia erfindet sich neu"
(in German) Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11 May 2010
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German reporters and correspondents
German women journalists
Süddeutsche Zeitung people
German newspaper journalists
1967 births
Living people
Writers from Dortmund