Never take no for an answer. Doors will close in your face, but look for the unconventional route. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; learn from them and move on. Languages made my career. If I did not speak 阿拉伯语, I would not have gotten as far as I did or as quickly.
Arwa Damon ’99
- Current Job
International Correspondent, CNN - At Skidmore
法国 Major | International Affairs Minor | 马球 - 奖
graduated with honors
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Breaking news: Read Arwa Damons's account of being under fire with Iraqi special forces Nov. 4-5, 2016, as they pushed into ISIS-held Mosul:
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Television journalist Arwa Damon '99 grew up in Morocco and Turkey, and went on to study 法国 and international affairs at Skidmore.
She has reported on the Arab world for CNN for more than a decade and is the recipient of the 2014 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. As the senior international correspondent for CNN, Damon is based in Lebanon and has also reported from Iraq, 埃及, 和利比亚. Among her news and feature reporting, she covered the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Iraqi election of 2005, the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein, the Arab Spring uprisings, and the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, 利比亚. She was the first television reporter allowed inside Iraq's Khamiya women's prison, and her coverage of a young Iraqi boy who was brutally burned inspired an international response that helped him get medical treatment in the US.
Before moving to the Mideast, Damon reported from Jakarta, 印尼, where her work included a special documentary, "Sumatra: Paradise Lost," covering deforestation and other environmental issues.
这里有一个 文章 by Damon about her work in Iraq.