Zeina Karam

Karam gained a degree in political science and public administration from the American University of Beirut. She started covering the Middle East for AP in 1996.^[1] In 2011 she was one of the first foreign reporters to enter Syria as the Arab Spring erupted.^[2]

In 2014 she became AP Beirut bureau chief, overseeing text coverage of Lebanon and Syria. In 2016 she became news director for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.^[1]

Karam was a contributor to the 2019 anthology Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Middle East.^[2] Her contribution, reflecting on the experiences of those who saw Syria descend into civil war, asked the question "Did we do them all justice in our reporting?".^[3]

• 'Syria Undone', in Hankir, Zahra, ed. (2019). Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World. Penguin. pp. 221-.