#  Yousur Al-Hlou 

 

 



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 email [yousur\_al-hlou@harvard.edu](mailto:yousur_al-hlou@harvard.edu) 

 



 

Yousur Al-Hlou is a visual journalist who uses traditional field reporting, visual evidence gathering and original cinematography to investigate crimes in conflict zones. As a video journalist for The New York Times for nearly a decade, she traveled to Syria, Gaza, and Ukraine to document human rights abuses and their impact on civilians. Her work with colleagues covering Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was awarded a [2022 George Polk Award](https://liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners#2022), a [2024 DuPont Award](https://dupont.org/caught-on-camera-traced-by-phone-credits) and the [2023 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-new-york-times-0). She received her bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Currently, she is a fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University where she is studying how international humanitarian law has failed to prevent armed conflict, and the challenges for accountability mechanisms in prosecuting war crimes.



 

 

 





 

 

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