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Octavia Nasr

Octavia Nasr is CNN’s senior editor of Middle East affairs and a 25-year veteran of the news business, renowned for integrating social media with news gathering and reporting. She serves as an on-air and off-air analyst across all CNN platforms, covering Middle East politics, global terrorism, and militant Islam. Nasr has reported on major events, including the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war and the 2003 Iraq war, and has received numerous awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage of the 2006 war in Lebanon. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts and is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.

By Invitation
The old curse of sectarianism

by Octavia Nasr January 24, 2008

by Octavia Nasr January 24, 2008

I was 14 at the time. Lebanon’s civil war was in full force. One afternoon the shells began raining down on our neighborhood in Beirut. We ran from school screaming. …

With Munza in the Bekaa

July 4, 2024

Octavia Nasr

Octavia Nasr

The old curse of sectarianism

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