“I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of guns and misery. I did not want to see Tyre again, or Qana, or Baghdad. I… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“After life is bent, torn, exploded, there are shattered pieces that do not heal for years, if at all. What is left are scars… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“the sight of militiamen sipping coffee at Starbucks, their rocket-propelled grenades resting in chairs in a distinctly Lebanese vision of globalization.” — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't. — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
“Subtle and coy, the cemento at Maalouf's did not speak of war, or frontiers, and the spaces they narrowed, but, rather, grandeur. The tiles… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
