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Sudarsan Raghavan, Nancy Youssef, Iraq
Sudarsan Raghavan is The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau chief. He has reported from more than 50 countries and nine war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the former Soviet Union and Central America. He covered the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, writing from the Persian Gulf, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan; he also covered the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq and then the ongoing insurgency. Raghavan has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; civil wars in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; post-apartheid South Africa; the rise of the Taliban Islamic regime in Afghanistan; and the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. He has investigated child slavery in West Africa and the roots of hunger in southern Africa. He spent much of 2004 covering the humanitarian crisis and civil war in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Nancy Youssef was formerly the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Bureau from August 2005 through February 2007. Before that, she was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, covering legal issues. While at the Free Press, she traveled throughout Jordan and Iraq for Knight Ridder, covering the Iraq war from the time leading up to it through the current period. She began her journalism career at the Baltimore Sun. She has won several awards for her work including from Maryland-D.C. Delaware Press Association and the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. A Washington, D.C.-area native, she earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from University of Virginia and began her post-graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Her parents are from Egypt, and she has been visiting the region all of her life.
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