LONDON: The Associated Press announced on Tuesday the appointment of Lebanese journalist Zeina Karam as deputy news director for Europe.
Karam has led the agency’s news coverage in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq for more than a decade, and has covered the Middle East for AP since 1996.
She was named AP Beirut bureau chief in 2014, overseeing text coverage of Lebanon and Syria, and was later named news director for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq in 2016.
Middle East AP correspondent Bassem Mroue announced Zeina’s appointment on Twitter: “The AP has named Karam deputy news director for Europe after leading the agency’s news coverage in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq for about a decade. Karam has been covering the Middle East for the AP since 1996.”
Throughout her career, Karam has reported from more than a dozen countries in the region, including Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Sudan, Oman and the UAE. She also covered UN General Assembly sessions in New York and the first two rounds of Syrian peace talks in Geneva in 2014.
From Lebanon, she reported on the country’s economic and political recovery, and its repeated conflicts with Israel, including the month-long Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.
Karam holds a degree in political science and public administration from the American University of Beirut.
