![]() The house was large, ostentatious, and built on a hilltop. In House of Stone, Shadid mostly writes about the house his great grandfather Isber built in Marjayoun, a town in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. House of Stone was the last book he wrote before he died. Last February, he passed away while covering the Free Syrian Army in Syria. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twice, he has avoided death: once when shot by an Israeli sniper while covering the Israeli-Palsteinian conflict and the second while covering the uprising in Libya, where he was kidnapped and beaten for a week by Colonel Qaddafi's officers. Of what Shadid has made of his life, we know this much: he wrote as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and twice earned a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage in Iraq. ![]()
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