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A responsibility to be the voice for the voiceless, which, she tells me, is also her secret to overcoming any nerves and a lack of confidence. So two days later we recorded.
When it comes to foreign correspondents, Al Jazeera’s Emmy Award-nominated Zeina Khodr is at the top of the list. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, wherever she is she’s a smart operator, a talented storyteller and she values integrity above it all.
For Zeina, reporting from war zones is not just her job - it’s her life.
It’s quiet here now in Beirut, and the Middle East doesn’t stay quiet for long.' And of course, Zeina was right.
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Zeina Khodr
Khodr has been a news correspondent, in national and international news, for over 15 years.
After reporting from Pakistan and Afghanistan, she came to international prominence as one of the first correspondents to enter Tripoli in 2011.
Now a senior correspondent for the Near East, Khodr reports from the Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. And that day, surviving the deadly Beirut blast, which killed more than 200 people, while out with her three-year-old son and her mum.
Khodr was educated at the American Community School (ACS), in Beirut, and at the American University of Beirut, where she earned her BA in political science in 1994.
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When I asked Zeina Khodr if she was keen to come on this podcast she said, ‘Yes!
Though not styled a war correspondent, her permanent presence on the ground, in a region of continual unrest, ensures a regular place on the front-line of conflict; her reports are frequently made in protective flak jacket and combat helmet, and often to a background of gunfire.
‘Make it about something bigger than yourself,' she says.
In this episode Zeina talks about calculating risks in war zones and why ego and laziness are a recipe for disaster. Being with the first convoy of opposition fighters as they entered Tripoli and went on to storm Gaddafi's compound. But we must do it soon.
She has worked for several news organizations, including: Al Jazeera's online, Arabic-language and English services, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), Emirates Dubai Television, the BBC World Service, and CNN.
Khodr has worked for Al Jazeera English since it launched, in 2006.