Jane Arraf covers Egypt, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East for NPR News.
Arraf joined NPR in 2016 after two decades of reporting from and about the region for CNN, NBC, the Christian Science Monitor, PBS Newshour, and Al Jazeera English. She has previously been posted to Baghdad, Amman, and Istanbul, along with Washington, DC, New York, and Montreal.
She has reported from Iraq since the 1990s. For several years, Arraf was the only Western journalist based in Baghdad. She reported on the war in Iraq in 2003 and covered live the battles for Fallujah, Najaf, Samarra, and Tel Afar. She has also covered India, Pakistan, Haiti, Bosnia, and Afghanistan and has done extensive magazine writing.
Arraf is a former Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Her awards include a Peabody for PBS NewsHour, an Overseas Press Club citation, and inclusion in a CNN Emmy.
Arraf studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa and began her career at Reuters.
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Iraq's new leader wants to disarm Iran-backed militias, but the move risks opening a new front in the Mideast.
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Despite wars ranging across the Middle East, more than 20 million Shia pilgrims gather in Iraq shrine city for Arbaeen... -
More than 20 million Shia pilgrims flocked to a shrine city in Iraq this week, including millions of Iranians, despite...
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For our series on breakfast foods around the world, we turn to Lebanon, where a breakfast is so beloved that...
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Iranians are driven in greater numbers by the U.S. killing of their spiritual leader
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Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict... -
The U.S. military says it launched a "heavy wave of strikes" on Iran after an Iranian attack on a U.S....
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The U.S. attacks were in retaliation for what the U.S. Central Command called "an attempted surprise attack" with ballistic missiles... -
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia struck Iran-backed militias in Iraq after they launched attacks.
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Oman says talks with Iran on reopening the Strait of Hormuz are making progress, as Tehran pauses retaliatory attacks after...
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Unable to return home, some Lebanese displaced by Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon are buying satellite images to see whether...
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The U.S. continued airstrikes in Iran while Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on U.S. targets in the Gulf, as President Trump...