By: E&P Staff Huda Ahmed, a Baghdad-based correspondent for Knight Ridder, has been awarded the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) announced.
She is the second recipient of the annual fellowship, which gives a woman journalist the opportunity to focus her journalism exclusively on human right and social justice issues, IWMF said.
Ahmed will spend the nine-month fellowship as a research associate in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. She will also have access to the Boston Globe and New York Times.
The fellowship is named for Elizabeth Neuffer, a Boston Globe reporter and the winner of a 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award who was killed while on assignment in Iraq in 2003.
Ahmed has been a reporter for Knight Ridder in Baghdad since 2004. She previously worked as an interpreter, researcher and reporter for The Washington Post and as a translator for The Daily Baghdad Observer and Al Jumhurriya Daily, all in Baghdad.
IWMF said Ahmed has written about the issues of women and children at risk in a war zone, the struggles of women in politics in a Muslim society, and human rights abuses by police and occupying forces.
Ahmed was recognized in 2004 by Knight Ridder's Washington bureau for extraordinary bravery in covering combat during the siege of Najaf in southern Iraq, the IWMF noted.
The fellowship was announced at the Elizabeth Neuffer Forum on Human Rights and Journalism, held Thursday at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.
The IWMF was launched in 1990 with the mission of strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide. The IWMF network includes more than 1,500 women and men in the media in more than 130 countries worldwide.
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