Nomi Morris

Email: NMorris@brooks.edu

BS Visual Journalism

Nomi Morris earned a Joint Honors BA in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from McGill University in Montreal and a MFA in Writing (Nonfiction) from Pacific University in Oregon. Nomi is Program Chair for Visual Journalism and joined Brooks Institute in 2012 after nearly three decades as an international journalist and writer.

She teaches media studies and writing for mass media. She covered the 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall for the Toronto Star newspaper and then moved to Berlin, where she wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Sydney Morning Herald and CBC Radio before becoming TIME Magazine’s Berlin correspondent.

Morris was Senior Writer for International, and Deputy World Editor at Maclean’s, Canada’s national news magazine, before moving to Jerusalem in the late 1990s as Middle East Bureau Chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers (now McClatchy). She has reported from Israel and the Palestinian territories, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Haiti, Cuba, Europe, Canada and the former Soviet Union. She covered a coup in Pakistan, Pope John Paul II’s visit to the Holy Land, the Camp David peace talks of 2000, and the first year of the al-Aqsa Palestinian Intifada, among many other national and global stories. Based in California since 2001, Morris has written for Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times and the Santa Barbara News-Press. Her book reviews have appeared in The Globe and Mail and the Los Angeles Review of Books.