Arab world Quote by Anthony Shadid

I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent'…

— Robert Fisk

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think…

— Stephen Farrell

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

— Kasie Hunt

I'm not a war reporter.

— Matthew Heineman

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and…

— Mark Leibovich

Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could…

— Samantha Power

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

— Leslie Cockburn

Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

— Jacob Weisberg

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

— Asne Seierstad

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises -…

— Geraldine Brooks

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're…

— P. J. O'Rourke

But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People…

— Annia Ciezadlo