Rania Abouzeid

the fall of assad’s syria

The New Yorker, December 8, 2024


Director’s cut

The Nation Magazine, August 1, 2024


is lebanon broken?

National Geographic Magazine, February 22, 2023

PLUS ABC Australia radio interview, Rania Abouzeid asks 'is Lebanon broken?


How Corruption ruined Lebanon

The New York Times Magazine, October 28, 2021


a year after beirut’s horrific port explosion, ‘nobody cares that people died’

National Geographic, July 30, 2021

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out now!

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For Harvard’s Nieman Reports

April 29, 2021


Why must every Lebanese generation endure violent chaos—and its aftermath?

A Letter to Beirut for National Geographic Magazine, August 26, 2020

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taking the lead

National Geographic Magazine, May 19, 2020

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this syrian doctor saved thousands in an underground hospital

National Geographic Magazine, November 22, 2019

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around the world, women are taking charge of their future

National Geographic Magazine, October 15, 2019

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AFTER FLEEING SYRIA, YOUNG REFUGEES BECOME THE YOUNGEST LABORERS

National Geographic Magazine, June 20, 2019

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NEWSMAKERS

Syria’s Civil War

Season 19 Episode 4 | 26m 46s

The Arab Spring swept across portions of the Middle East as demonstrators protested autocratic rule. They were demanding democracy and greater economic opportunities. The uprisings spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya to Yemen and then to Syria in early 2011. The protests sparked the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. We talk about the conflict’s history.



WHEN THE WEAPONS FALL SILENT: RECONCILIATION IN SINJAR AFTER ISIS

European Council on Foreign Relations brief, October 2018

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A brief remembrance of Anthony Bourdain, in the Washington Post

June 8, 2018



the price lebanon is paying for the hezbollah-israel war

The New Yorker, November 21, 2024


war comes to beirut

The New Yorker, October 11, 2024

PLUS: Democracy Now!


are israel and hezbollah headed toward an ‘open-ended battle?’

The New Yorker, September 23, 2024

PLUS: ABC Australia Radio: Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah leader warns 'red lines’ crossed, Channel 4 News and Democracy Now!


The other side of the river

The New Yorker, May 12, 2024

PLUS ABC Australia interviews, Unrest in Jordan over the Gaza war

and Jordan in uproar over treatment of Palestinians


the escalating violence between israel and lebanon

The New Yorker, November 10, 2023


the simmering lebanese front in israel’s war

The New Yorker, October 21, 2023



Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing to the south—through South America’s ‘poetic heart’

National Geographic, October 4, 2021

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frontline pbs interview

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Excerpts from interview transcript, and link to the Frontline PBS documentary, The Jihadist


rebuilding in beirut, after the blast

The Atlantic Magazine, March 12, 2021

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why comparing the capitol insurrection to ‘third-world countries’ ignores us history

National Geographic, January 7, 2021

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A (brief) pause in journalism while I am at Harvard for the 2019-20 academic year


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The New York Times Op-Ed. October 23, 2019


how women are stepping up to remake rwanda

National Geographic Magazine, October 15, 2019

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RAed fares and his push toward a revolutionary agenda in syria

Al Jazeera’s Listening Post, December 2, 21018



UNREPORTED WORLD, CHANNEL 4. Kidnapped in Kabul: The people of Kabul have become used to living with bombs and gunfights as the Taliban continue to try to overthrow the Afghan government. But now there's a new danger, criminal gangs who kidnap for ransom. Often their victims are children. - May 4, 2018


Talking Policy: Rania Abouzeid on the Syrian Crisis

World Policy Journal, July 28, 2017

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On BBC World Service Weekend, talking Syria, arms control in the US, media in China, data and democracy, and more with presenter Julian Worricker, and fellow guest Bruno Maçães, former Europe minister for Portugal, and author of "The Dawn of Eurasia."