The Ed Cunningham Award 2009 | Overseas Press Club of America

Alissa J. Rubin

Award Date:

2009

Award Name:

The Ed Cunningham Award

Award Recipient:

Alissa J. Rubin

Award Recipient Affiliation:

The New York Times Magazine

Award Honored Work:

"How Baida Wanted to Die"

Alissa Rubin’s “How Baida Wanted to Die” explores the background, motivation and training of one of 16 would-be female suicide bomber suspects or accomplices captured by the police in Diyala Province, Iraq, since the beginning of 2008. Rubin’s meticulously researched and artfully crafted narrative begins in Baquba in a darkened Iraqi police office with bombs going off in the distance and ends with a shocking and intimate revelation.

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