CMES Lecture: Covering the Middle East: The Human Toll of Conflict

Journalist Roba El Husseini has spent the past decade working with the French news agency AFP in Beirut, covering war-torn Syria and crisis-hit Lebanon, relaying breaking news and resulting human tragedies. She has reported on numerous military operations and has deployed multiple times to Syria and Iraq to cover battles against the Islamic State group.

Roba will discuss her process in covering the Middle East today: how to provide context to breaking news, and which emerging stories take precedence.

She will be in conversation with author Leon McCarron whose most recent book is based on five years of reporting on the river Tigris in Iraq.