Raja Abdulrahim has been the New York Times Jerusalem correspondent since 2021. Prior to that, she was a journalist with the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, where she was a member of Metro staff. Once the Arab Spring revolutions began, she went first to Egypt and reported from Tahrir Square during the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and then to Libya to cover the first weeks of that country’s uprising. She then spent several years reporting from the Middle East, especially covering Syria. Her coverage of Syria’s civil war was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014 and won an Overseas Press Club Award.