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Baby, Pulitzer top Oklahoma City native Anthony Shadid’s week

 
BY JAMES S. TYREE | Published: April 14, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Three months after escaping injury from bombs that rocked his house in Baghdad, Oklahoma City native Anthony Shadid is stateside celebrating the birth of his son Saturday and the Monday announcement of his second Pulitzer Prize.

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Shadid received the 2004 and 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting for his coverage of Iraq for the Washington Post, but he recently joined his reporter wife Nada Bakri at the New York Times.

They live in Cambridge, Mass., when not working overseas.

"My wife is my hero,” Shadid told The Oklahoman Tuesday in a telephone conversation. "She was seven months pregnant in Baghdad before she left, and she worked pretty much through her pregnancy, including near the end when three bombs went off near our office at the house.

"They shattered every window in the house,” he said, "and to her credit, she showed a lot of courage.”

He plans to stay in Cambridge through April before returning to Iraq alone. In December, he will become the Times’ bureau chief in Beirut.

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