Reporter Maggie Michael and photographer Nariman El-Mofty were two Egyptians among an Associated Press team of three Arab journalists to win this year’s Pulitzer Prize. They’re the first Egyptian winners to win the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. The team’s heroic efforts showed the deployment of child soldiers in Yemen, the torture of prisoners and the lack and theft of food aid. The third member of the team is Yemen’s video journalist Maad al-Zikry. His most famous photo showed a starving child during the Yemen crisis. The photo was taken in 2016.
The prizes were awarded at Columbia University in New York. The Associated Press declared that the team has been covering the Yemen crisis for an entire year. AP’s executive editor talked about how brave the team is to go all out to deliver the stories of the Yemeni people, that no one was able to deliver in such outstanding detail.
