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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zekri, Sonja German reporters and correspondents German women journalists Süddeutsche Zeitung people German newspaper journalists 1967 births Living people Writers from Dortmund