Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, died on Thursday of an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. Shadid wrote three books and spent most of his career covering the Middle East. He was 43.
Executive Editor Jill Abramson said in a statement Thursday: “Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces.”
Read the Times’ obituary here.
