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University of Oklahoma.
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Hannah Allam
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Early in her career, Mississippi Allam interned for the Washington Post. She then became a staff reporter for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, from which McClatchy recruited her in 2003 to assist them with, and later to lead, their in-depth coverage of the Iraq War.
She is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
She was reared in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, but she returned to the United States of America to complete high school in Oklahoma, then she majored in journalism and was editor of the student newspaper at the University of Oklahoma. She was a 2008-2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
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1999, 1998-1999 University of Oklahoma, Division of Student Affairs, CSPA Gold Circle: Personality Profile, first place 2004, National Association of Black Journalists, 2004 Journalist of the Year Award. 2006, Overseas Press Club (with two of her Baghdad Bureau colleagues), Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad for "Iraq: America"s Failing War." 2008-2009, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University 2009, 30th annual McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia.
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1999, 1998-1999 University of Oklahoma, Division of Student Affairs, CSPA Gold Circle : Personality Profile, first place 2004, National Association of Black Journalists, 2004 Journalist of the Year Award. 2006, Overseas Press Club (with two of her Baghdad Bureau colleagues), Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad for "Iraq: America's Failing War." 2008-2009, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University 2009, 30th annual McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia1999, 1998-1999 University of Oklahoma, Division of Student Affairs, CSPA Gold Circle : Personality Profile, first place 2004, National Association of Black Journalists, 2004 Journalist of the Year Award. 2006, Overseas Press Club (with two of her Baghdad Bureau colleagues), Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad for "Iraq: America's Failing War." 2008-2009, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University 2009, 30th annual McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia