Anne Barnard

Anne Barnard has been the bureau chief in Beirut since 2013. She joined The New York Times as a Metro reporter in August 2007. More

Anne Barnard has been the bureau chief in Beirut since 2013. She joined The New York Times as a Metro reporter in August 2007.

Previously, Ms. Barnard had covered the Middle East and the Iraq war for The Boston Globe. She also worked as a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Moscow Times.

She graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1992.

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