![]() In House of Stone, Shadid writes, "I gleefully, frenetically lost myself in the tile as I once had with stories in Beirut, Baghdad and Cairo." He was working at the Washington Post in 2007 when he took a yearlong leave to painstakingly reconstruct his great-grandfather's abandoned home in the town of Marjayoun. The book describes how, three generations after his family left Lebanon for Oklahoma City, Shadid was drawn back to his roots - and to rebuilding his connection to Lebanon in a most literal way. 16 was a devastating loss for journalism and for the Middle East he did so much to illuminate.īut Shadid's voice is still with us - in the form of the memoir House of Stone, published this week. ![]() The death of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid in Syria on Feb. Nada Bakri/Courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ![]() ![]() 16, was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. ![]()
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