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Leila Fadel
Women have been covering war at least since Margaret Fuller's eyewitness accounts for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune in the late 1840s of the revolution that unified Italy. In the 1930s and '40s, a number of prominent women journalists covered with distinction the brewing tensions, and subsequent fighting, in Europe, from Margaret Bourke-White to Virginia Cowles, Martha Gellhorn to Helen Kirkpatrick. And some of the most famous female journalists today, such as Christiane Amanpour, got their starts in war zones. But never before have women dominated coverage of a war the way they are in Syria. Never has their ability to do the job of war correspondent been less controversial, more a part of the natural order of things in the news business. Here, Fadel examines why women are leading coverage of the war-torn Middle East.
