Rania Abouzeid and Anand Gopal Won Overseas Press Club Awards

Former National Fellows Rania Abouzeid and Anand Gopal won Overseas Press Club awards for their outstanding reporting and writing.

Abouzeid won for the best non-fiction book on international affairs for her book No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria, which the judges called “an extraordinary feat of reporting — a searing account of the lives of Syrians from all sides caught up in a catastrophic war.”

Gopal won for the third consecutive year for the best magazine-style, long-form narrative feature on an international story. The judges said about his winning New Yorker article: “Anand Gopal is not from the war-torn Syrian village of Saraquib, but he immersed himself in the life and soul of the place during six years of brave and brilliant reporting. The result was a masterpiece.”