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Mona Ziade, Who Covered Lebanon’s Civil War and Arab-Israeli Peace Talks for the AP, Dies at 66
Mona Ziade reported on Lebanon's civil war, hostage crises, and 1993 Arab-Israeli peace talks, shaping Middle East coverage for The Associated Press for over two decades.
- On Tuesday, Mona Ziade, journalist for The Associated Press, died at her home in Beirut from lung cancer complications after months of treatment, her daughter Tamara Blanche said.
- Ziade launched her journalism career with United Press International in Beirut in 1978 and joined the Associated Press four years later, covering Lebanon's civil war and the 1993 White House peace accord.
- A longtime friendship with Abu Jihad, commander of the PLO's military wing, gave Ziade key sources and safety, while Terry Anderson, AP's chief Middle East correspondent, was kidnapped in Beirut in 1985, prompting AP to move headquarters to Nicosia, Cyprus.
- She and Ed Blanche helped relaunch Lebanon's Daily Star, with Ziade as national editor and managing editor before leaving AP in 1996 to resettle in Beirut and joining the World Bank's Lebanon office in 2003.
- Born in Benghazi, Libya, on Dec. 23, 1959, Ziade is survived by Tamara Blanche and Ed Blanche's sons, Jay and Lee, with her age corrected to 65, her daughter said.
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Mona Ziade, who helped shape the AP's Middle East coverage in the 1980s and '90s, dies at age 65
Former Associated Press journalist Mona Ziade has died. She covered major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and ’90s. She was 65.
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