Hwaida Saad is a Lebanese journalist who writes for the New York Times.
Based in Beirut, she has written on Lebanon, ISIS and the experience across the Middle East of everyday life sustained through conflict.
She took various teaching, PR, and administrative roles,[2] managing the Lebanese office of a Syrian auto supply for several years.
[1] After Rafiq al-Hariri's 2005 assassination, Saad helped a friend by acting as a fixer for the Boston Globe.
She discovered she enjoyed the work,[1] and after gaining a master's degree in education from Saint Joseph University of Beirut in 2008 started working for the New York Times as an interpreter and news assistant.