E-mail a friendSeptember 30, 2005
Washington Post foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid explains Iraq's reluctance to embrace democracy. Actress Maria Bello shares her experience in filming the new feature, A History of Violence.
Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has earned public acclaim for his reporting on the war in Iraq's impact on families. He is Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post and previously worked for The Boston Globe, where he covered diplomacy and the State Department, and for the Associated Press. An American of Lebanese descent, Shadid's ability to speak and read Arabic gives him insights not often available to most Western journalists working in the Middle East.
Maria Bello
Maria Bello
Actress Maria Bello planned to be a lawyer. After taking a drama class in her senior year at Villanova, she changed course. She was cast in small off-Broadway plays and has since taken roles in such films as The Cooler, Assault on Precinct 13 and, in what's being called career-topping work, A History of Violence. She's also won acclaim for her work on TV. Bello is active in the Save the Children charity and cofounder of the DreamYard Drama Project, a nonprofit arts and education program for urban kids.