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Dalal Mawad

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Dalal Mawad ( in Arabic دلال معوض) is a Lebanese journalist and author of ALL SHE LOST, a book published by Bloomsbury UK that chronicles Lebanon's recent collapse and the explosion of Beirut through women stories. She is the Paris-based correspondent of Al Araby TV and a seasonal television commentator.

Biography

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Dalal Mawad was born in Lebanon during the civil war and was raised in the north of the country before moving to Beirut to study at the American University of Beirut. She has a master's degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and started her career as a journalist after earning a graduate degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia University's journalism school. She covered the Middle East for more than a decade working with the New York Times, Al Jazeera English and the Associated Press in Beirut. Mawad was also a regional video producer for the United Nations Refugee Agency.

She moved to Paris in 2021 where she worked for CNN and became an adjunct professor at Sciences Po university in Paris.

Awards

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Mawad won the Samir Kassir Award in 2020 for a short film she produced on a transgender woman in Lebanon.

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