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Annia Ciezadlo has lived in Lebanon since 2003, filing dispatches from Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Iraqi Kurdistan for The New Republic, The Nation, the National Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Observer.
Until 2003, she was a senior editor at the award-winning New York City newsmagazine City Limits. Her December 2002 cover story, “Coney Island High,” used the story of a recovered drug dealer to show how urban renewal devastated one of New York’s coolest neighborhoods -- and an entire generation of people who lived there. In 2003, it was a finalist for the Freedom Forum’s Excellence in Urban Journalism Award and the Harry Chapin Media Awards.
In late 2003, Ciezadlo left Brooklyn for Baghdad, where she worked as a stringer for The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. Since then, she has covered uprisings in Lebanon, crackdowns in Syria, and the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Ciezadlo has broken important political stories, like Iraqi womens’ demand for quotas and the flight of the country’s Christian minority, to name a couple. But she specializes in articles about Arab culture and civil society, stories that explore the intersections between larger political realities and everyday activities like driving, cooking, and going to school. (She speaks a little Arabic, which helps.) Many of them—like her story about Iraq's first reality TV show—have been picked up or copied by major media outlets. This collection includes stories about Hezbollah perfume; Iraqi war poetry; Lebanon’s slow food movement; Baghdad’s political graffiti; and many more.
Ciezadlo is currently writing a memoir, to be published by Free Press, about food and war in the Middle East.
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