Lorraine Ali (Arabic:لورين علي) is an American journalist and columnist. She is news and culture critic of theLos Angeles Times,^[1] where she was previously a senior writer, television critic, and music editor. Her work has appeared in publications such asRolling Stone, theNew York Times,GQ, andNewsweek, where she was a senior writer and music critic from 2000 to 2009.^[2][3] She is a member of thePeabody Awards board of jurors.^[4]

Ali was born in Los Angeles California to an Iraqi father and an American mother of French Canadian ancestry.^[5]

Ali began her career in the 1990s writing about local Los Angeles music artists for theLA Weekly before becoming a regular writer with theLos Angeles Times under the editorship ofRobert Hilburn. Ali's work was included inDa Capo's "Best Music Writing 2001."^[6]Ali was a senior critic forRolling Stone and a music columnist forMademoiselle. She has written forEsquire,SPIN,The Village Voice,Adweek,Entertainment Weekly,Harper's Bazaar andOption. She wrote a car column forU.H.F in the 1990s before the alternative style magazine folded. She has appeared onOprah,Charlie Rose,CNN,BBC, among other media outlets, where she has discussed media, entertainment, culture, her relatives in Iraq and American-Muslim issues.^[5]

Since the Multi-National Force (sometimes called The Coalition) invasion of Iraq in 2003, Ali has published dozens of stories about her extended Iraqi family, the ensuing refugee crisis and PresidentDonald Trump's2017 travel ban. She has also written about the portrayal of Muslims in American media, film and television.^[7][8]

Ali was awarded an East West Center fellowship in 2016, and a Hedgebrook fellowship in 2011.^[2]

In 2022, she won first place, Criticism of TV, at the LA Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards.^[9] She also won Best Online Feature from the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2007,^[10] and an Excellence in Journalism Award in 2002 from the National Arab Journalists Association.^[11] In 1996, she won Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.^[12]

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