Elizabeth Dickinson is a Gulf-based American journalist who has written for The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Economist, the Christian Science Monitor, The National, and Al Monitor, as well as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The New Republic, among others.
Elizabeth is Middle East correspondent and Editor for Monitor Global Outlook, a news start-up of the Christian Science Monitor. She is the author of Who Shot Ahmed, a Kindle Single chronicling the murder of a 22-year-old videographer, killed in cold blood in the dead of night at the height of Bahrain’s Arab Spring. She was the first Western journalist to chronicle the private Gulf donor network to Syria's opposition. She is co-editor of the recent book The Southern Tiger, Palgrave MacMillan 2012.
A former Gulf Correspondent for The National newspaper, Elizabeth has also worked as assistant managing editor at Foreign Policy magazine and Nigeria correspondent for The Economist. She graduated Cum Laude from Yale University, with a degree in African and International Studies. A former Overseas Press Club scholarship recipient, she has reported from five continents and speaks fluent French, Spanish, and Krio, as well as basic Yoruba and Arabic. You're most likely to find her at the airport -- or on Twitter: @DickinsonBeth
Elizabeth is Middle East correspondent and Editor for Monitor Global Outlook, a news start-up of the Christian Science Monitor. She is the author of Who Shot Ahmed, a Kindle Single chronicling the murder of a 22-year-old videographer, killed in cold blood in the dead of night at the height of Bahrain’s Arab Spring. She was the first Western journalist to chronicle the private Gulf donor network to Syria's opposition. She is co-editor of the recent book The Southern Tiger, Palgrave MacMillan 2012.
A former Gulf Correspondent for The National newspaper, Elizabeth has also worked as assistant managing editor at Foreign Policy magazine and Nigeria correspondent for The Economist. She graduated Cum Laude from Yale University, with a degree in African and International Studies. A former Overseas Press Club scholarship recipient, she has reported from five continents and speaks fluent French, Spanish, and Krio, as well as basic Yoruba and Arabic. You're most likely to find her at the airport -- or on Twitter: @DickinsonBeth
