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Biography
Christina Lamb OBE (born 15 May 1966) is a British journalist who is currently Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times. She was educated at University College, Oxford (BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
In 2013 she co-authored the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot By The Taliban"
In 2016 she participated 'in a conference designed to legitimize the rule of Syria’s genocidal head of state' Bashar Assad, organized by the British Syrian Society, a “foundation” chaired by Assad’s father-in-law, the London-based physician Fawaz Ahkras. The larger purpose of the conference appear[ed] to be raising money for the regime and its war effort, in part by relieving sanctions against major regime figures.'
Affiliations
- 1988 British Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year
- 1991 British Press Awards Reporter of the Year
- 1992 Amnesty International UK Media Award for Periodicals Writing
- 2002 British Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2002 Foreign Press Association award for reporting on the War on Terror
- 2002 BBC What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2007 BBC What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2007 British Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year
- 2009 Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents War Correspondent of the Year
