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BEIRUT (AP) — Mona Ziade, who helped The Associated Press cover major events out of the Middle East during the 1980s and ’90s, including the taking of Western hostages during Lebanon’s civil war and Arab-Israeli peace talks, has died. She was 66.
Ziade died Tuesday morning at her home in Beirut from complications of lung cancer after undergoing treatment for months, her daughter Tamara Blanche said. Blanche said that her mother had been unconscious in the hours before she passed away.
Ziade, a dual citizen of Lebanon and Jordan, launched her journalism career with United Press International in Beirut in 1978 before joining the AP four years later.
While covering Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, Ziade’s boss, the AP’s chief Middle East correspondent Terry Anderson, was kidnapped in Beirut in
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