Born in Gaza, Taghreed El-Khodary received her undergraduate degree in communications from the American University in Cairo and her MS in mass communication from Murray State University, which she attended as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2006, she returned to the USA to accept a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University as the Ruth Cowan Nash Fellow. She is a journalist writing for the New York Times and has worked as a radio reporter for Voice of America, as a television reporter for Al Jazeera, and as a TV news correspondent for Al Hayat LBC.

As a Heinrich Boell Fellow and Visiting Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Middle East Program, Taghreed will be in Washington, DC from the beginning of May to the end of July 2010. Her focus will be the topic of the future of Gaza and give several talks and organize a study group on Palestinian politics.

Interviews and events

Click here for the event Divided Palestine-A Barrier to Peace? at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Click here for the NPR interview Gaza Overtakes Obama's Mideast Shuttle Diplomacy with Michele Dunne und Taghreed El-Khodary

On June 7, she participated in the expert panel discussion Can the Peace Process be Saved? at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Click here to read Hamas Gains the Most from Israeli Raid, an interview with Taghreed El-Khodary

The Heinrich Boell Fellowship is a cooperation project between the Heinrich Boell offices in Ramallah and Washington, DC.