Janet Lee Stevens

Quick Facts

Full Name	Janet Lee Stevens
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1951(1951-12-01)
Age	73
Date Of Death	April 18, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon
Birthplace	Saginaw
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Janet Lee Stevens Biography

Janet Lee Stevens is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 1, 1951 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States.

Janet Lee Stevens was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on December 1, 1951, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Northside High School. She attended Stetson University and earned a bachelor’s degree in International Studies in

1972. She moved to Philadelphia to study Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and started the PhD program in 1973 in the department of Oriental Studies (known from 1984 as the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and from 2005 as the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations). She won a fellowship to study Arabic at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at the American University in Cairo in the 1974-75 academic year. Around this time she also held a Fulbright scholarship.

Janet Lee Stevens (December 1, 1951 – April 18, 1983) was an American journalist, human rights advocate, translator, and scholar of popular Arabic theater. She lived in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and chronicled the experiences of Palestinian refugees before and after the Sabra and Shatila Massacre of September 16–18, 1982.

Janet Lee Stevens Net Worth

Janet Lee Stevens is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Janet Lee Stevens 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The Washington DC Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for promoting human rights and democracy in Iran features Stevens in its database called “Omid, a Memorial in Defense of Human Rights in Iran”. Founded in 2002, this database originally included people whom it described as “victims of the Islamic Republic” and its human rights abuses since 1979, and also by all Iranian governments since December 10, 1948, when General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights with Iran as a signatory.

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The Palestinians called Stevens “the little drummer girl” because of her staunch support for their cause. In 1982, she gave the British novelist David Cornwell, also known as John le Carré, a tour of the Sabra and Shatila camps. Stevens inspired the title of John le Carré’s novel The Little Drummer Girl, which was published in 1983, made into a film in 1984, and developed as a BBC/AMS television miniseries in 2018. According to one source, Stevens and Le Carré became friends; he consulted her on possible sites for filming in the region; and she was reportedly scheduled to fly to Cyprus to see him a day after the bombing in which she died.

Facts & Trivia

Juarno Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Janet Lee Stevens celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.

Of the people like Stevens who had been eating lunch in the U.S. embassy’s cafeteria in Beirut on April 18, 1983, only two survived the bombing. One of these survivors, diplomat Anne Dammarell, wrote a 1994 Georgetown University MA thesis in which she argued that the bombing caused the American Foreign Service Officers posted in the embassy to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms “similar to those faced by war veterans” but at a time when the U.S. State Department “did not provide sufficient training and follow-up support to allow them to recognize, acknowledge, and fully process the trauma”.

Top Facts about Janet Lee Stevens

1. Janet Lee Stevens was an American journalist and war correspondent.
2. She covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iran, and Lebanon.
3. Stevens was known for her bravery and dedication to reporting.
4. She was killed by a sniper while covering the Lebanese Civil War in 1985.
5. Stevens’ death sparked international outrage and condemnation of violence against journalists.
6. Her legacy lives on through the Janet Lee Stevens Award for Social Justice Reporting.
7. The award recognizes journalists who report on social justice issues with courage and integrity.
8. Stevens’ work inspired many young women to pursue careers in journalism.
9. She is remembered as a trailblazer for women in the field of war reporting.
10. Stevens’ contributions to journalism continue to be celebrated today.