Sahar al-Haidari
Sahar Husain Ali al-Haidari (born July 15, 1962 in Baghdad , † June 7, 2007 in Mosul ; also written al-Haideri ) was an Iraqi journalist .
Life
Sahar al-Haidari studied administration and journalism at the University of Baghdad and graduated with a bachelor's degree. In the 1980s she moved to Mosul, from where she reported for Iraqi newspapers and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (London).
She belonged to the Shiite denomination and was married to the Sunni Haitham an-Naqib. The couple had four daughters.
Sahar al-Haidari was among the first Iraqi journalists to write about the growing influence of radical Islamists. From 2004 she reported for the independent Iraqi news agency Aswat al-Iraq. She was kidnapped in 2005 and was released by accident. In 2006 she was shot and in the meantime fled to Syria with her family. After several death threats, she was shot dead by unknown persons in June 2007 at the age of 44 in front of her home in northern Mosul. Ansar al-Sunnah took responsibility for the attack .
literature
- Martina Doering: The last report . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 4, 2007.
Web links
- Sahar al-Haidari: "Mosul without pictures". In: Berliner Zeitung , August 4, 2007 (published posthumously)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haidari, Sahar al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haidari, Sahar Hussein al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baghdad |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2007 |
| Place of death | Mosul |