Taghreed El-Khodary is a Palestinian journalist who is a visiting scholar in the Middle East Program at the

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, where her research focuses on the future of Gaza. She is also a 2010 Heinrich Boell Fellow. She is editor at fanack.com, From 2001 to 2009, El-Khodary reported from Gaza for ''

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''. She stopped reporting for the Times soon after the Electronic Intifada reported that

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, the

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bureau chief of the ''Times'', has a son serving in the Israeli army. The Times decided not to remove Bronner from his position, and El-Khodary resigned, saying she felt it was “not wise” for her to stay. “It’s risky,” she said in a panel discussion at the

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in Washington DC. “It’s very sensitive and I was really disappointed that

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took this decision but they understand why I left.”

Background

El-Khodary was born in Gaza and holds an undergraduate degree in communications from the American University in Cairo and an MS in mass communication from Murray State University, which she attended as a Fulbright Scholar. El-Khodary later returned to the U.S. to take up a

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at Harvard University in 2006 as the

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Fellow, and again in 2010 as a Heinrich Boell Fellow and visiting scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Professional work

El-Khodary has worked as a radio reporter for

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; television reporter for

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; and TV news correspondent for Al Hayat LBC, in addition to work on individual documentaries for National Geographic,

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(US), ITV (UK), and CBC (Canada). In 2010 she led a three-week mentorship program on election coverage for journalists in northern Sudan under the auspices of the

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and

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’s Fojo Media Institute. El-Khodary came to public attention during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, when Israel prevented correspondents from crossing the Gaza-Israel border and she was among the few correspondents reporting from Gaza. She describes herself as among the "very few objective reporters" covering the conflict. and was praised for the "in-depth, balanced coverage" of the conflict. She feels that her identity, as a Palestinian, was useful to her reporting in Gaza because she was able to "live the story". After it came out that then NYT's Jerusalem bureau chief,

, had a son serving an enlistment in the

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, and that the New York Times refused to fire him after this was made public, El-Khodary decided to leave her NYT post.

References

External links

Q & A with Taghreed-el-Khodary in gaza
''The New York Times.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Khodary, Taghreed Year of birth missing (living people) Living people The New York Times journalists 21st-century Palestinian journalists Murray State University alumni Fulbright alumni 21st-century Palestinian women Journalists from Gaza City