Alissa J. Rubin
Best magazine reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 2009
AWARD NAME: The Ed Cunningham Award 2009
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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Citation for Excellence:
Adam Hochschild
Freelance for The New York Review of Books
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