Nadia Dean

Nadia Dean was born in Columbia, South Carolina and grew up as a Third Culture Kid with a Lebanese father and American mother. From Baghdad, where her father had worked for the U.S. State Department, Nadia and her family evacuated at the start of the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1975, Nadia fled Beirut's heavy artillery fire in Lebanon's civil war.

At the University of South Carolina, she became a Media Arts major with an emphasis in photography and film. In Jerusalem, Nadia worked as still photographer for the highly controversial PBS film Days of Rage. Her photographs of the Palestinian Intifada in 1988 were published in Time magazine, The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Nadia interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu and Benni Begin for the D.C.-based political journal New American View (published by former CIA executive Victor Marchetti, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence). Her investigative reporting on Israeli government corruption included interviews with Israeli whistleblower Barry Chamish (The Fall of Israel, The Last Days of Israel).

In Washington, D.C., Nadia became the daily English language news correspondent reporting from the White House and the State Department for Emirates Dubai Television. As a member of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives News Galleries, Nadia produced daily news for MBC (Middle East Broadcasting) covering U.S.-Middle East foreign policy. Special reports included an interview with Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and for the CNN World Report, a story about Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown's mysterious death. Nadia had previously earned an FAA Commercial/Instrument Pilot license, which added insight to her coverage of the Secretary's plane crash. King Hussein's father-in-law, Najeeb Halaby, inspired and mentored Nadia's flight training career. In 1995, Halaby invited Nadia to participate in Operation Peace Flight, the commemoration of the treaty between Jordan and Israel.

Nadia's first book, A Demand of Blood, chronicles the Cherokee War of 1776. Her film Cameron, based on the book, tells the story of loyalist Indian agent Alexander Cameron who in 1776 suddenly becomes a hunted man. Her second book, DEEP COVER: How Mental Illness, 9/11, and the FBI Upended My Life is being adapted for screen, and her third book, Murder in the Mountains: Historic True Crime in Western North Carolina has just been published.