Musue Noha Haddad
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Musue Noha Haddad | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 17, 1968 |
| Died | November 25, 2013 (aged 44) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and photojournalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Ghanaian Women and Children in Health and Development; Ghanaian Funerals; A Day in the Lives of Two Teenage Mothers |
Musue Noha Haddad (December 17, 1968 – November 25, 2013) was a Liberian journalist and photojournalist.
Haddad was born on December 17, 1968.[1]
Career
Haddad began her journalism career while in exile in Accra, Ghana, while the First Liberian Civil War raged in her home country. In Ghana she undertook several photojournalism projects, including A Day in the Lives of Two Teenage Mothers, a documentary on the lives of two teenagers and their children, considering the impact of teenage pregnancy on mothers, their children, and society. The project led to a three-day photographic exhibition in 2005. Haddad's next photojournalism project, Ghanaian Women and Children in Health and Development, resulted in an exhibition to commemorate UNICEF's 50th anniversary of operations in Accra. In 1996 she also collaborated on a photojournalism research project, Ghanaian Funerals. The project climaxed with an 11-day photo exhibition and 47-page book published in Germany.
Haddad returned to Liberia in early 1997 to become a Staff Writer for The News, an independent national daily newspaper. At The News Haddad wrote articles critical of the government and provided information that the government had tried to suppress.[citation needed] In 1998, following articles Haddad wrote about a visit she made to the United States in 1998, she was accused of spying for the CIA; she received death threats and physical attacks, and left for exile in the United States. A number of her colleagues at The News were imprisoned in February 2001, and Haddad advocated internationally for their release.[2] In exile, she highlighted human rights situation in her country, drawing the international community's attention to the situation.
In the US, Haddad served as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Merrill School of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park.[3] In 2000 she was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights.[4] In 2006 Haddad completed a Master of International Policy and Practice degree at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.