Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR’s award-winning ”Morning Edition,” ”All Things Considered,” and ”Weekend Edition.” In 2009, Amos won the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting from Georgetown University and in 2010 was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award by Washington State University. Amos was part of a team of reporters who won a 2004 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of Iraq. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 1991-92, Amos returned to Harvard in 2010 as a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School. In 2003, Amos returned to NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC’s ”Nightline” and ”World News Tonight,” and the PBS programs ”NOW with Bill Moyers” and ”Frontline.” When Amos first came to NPR in 1977, she worked first as a director and then a producer for ”Weekend All Things Considered” until 1979. For the next six years, she worked on radio documentaries, which won her several significant honors. In 1982, Amos received the Prix Italia, the Ohio State Award, and a DuPont-Columbia Award for “Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown,” and in 1984 she received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “Refugees.” From 1985 until 1993, Amos spent most of her time at NPR reporting overseas, including as the London Bureau Chief and as an NPR foreign correspondent based in Amman, Jordan. During that time, Amos won several awards, including a duPont-Columbia Award and a Breakthru Award, and widespread recognition for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Amos is also the author of Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East (Public Affairs, 2010) and Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World (Simon and Schuster, 1992). Amos is a Ferris Professor at Princeton University, where she teaches journalism. Amos holds a degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida at Gainesville.