A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi

President Barack Obama's historic trip to Israel, the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, and the Westgate shopping mall attack by Al-Shabaab militants among other stories.Ībawi has also written articles for the National Review and The Huffington Post about Islam and Afghanistan. In 2012, Atia interviewed Afghan President Hamid Karzai - the first interview of the Afghan President for the network in a decade.Īfter nearly five years of living and working in Afghanistan, Abawi moved to Jerusalem in January 2013. raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, providing analysis and commentary. Additionally, she reported from London as part of NBC's Royal wedding coverage, and was a part of the NBC News special coverage following the U.S. In 2010, NBC News hired Abawi as its Afghanistan correspondent and bureau chief. Abawi also led CNN's coverage from Jerusalem of the Gaza Flotilla attack of 2010 by Israeli forces. Outside of Afghanistan, she was part of a CNN team that had to sneak into Myanmar to cover the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi. and ISAF military operation in Marjah, Afghanistan in 2010. While in Afghanistan, Abawi embedded with U.S., NATO and Afghan forces numerous times, including during the major U.S. Before Afghanistan, she worked on several prominent international stories including the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan and Youssif, the young Iraqi boy burned by insurgents in Iraq. In 2008, she was named CNN's Afghanistan correspondent and manager of its Kabul bureau. After graduating from Virginia Tech Abawi worked as a reporter CTV 76, a local TV station in Largo, Maryland, before moving to Atlanta to work for CNN and then NBC News.Īt CNN, Abawi started in the Media Operations department before working her way up to producer and then to foreign correspondent. After graduating from Annandale High School, Abawi went to Virginia Tech. Early life Ībawi was born in West Germany, to Afghan parents who fled Afghanistan following the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

She is fluent in Dari and is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Abawi is known for her strong support for female empowerment in both her writing and reporting. Her first book, the critically acclaimed The Secret Sky: A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan was published by Penguin Random House in September 2014. While working as a foreign correspondent, she was based in Kabul, Afghanistan, for almost five years. Atia Abawi (born 1982) is an American author and television journalist.

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi