Anthony Shadid Knew Quotations

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.