11 Facts About Lorraine Ali

Lorraine Ali is an American journalist and columnist.

Lorraine Ali is news and culture critic of the Los Angeles Times, where she was previously a senior writer, television critic, and music editor.

Lorraine Ali's work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, GQ, and Newsweek, where she was a senior writer and music critic from 2000 to 2009.

Lorraine Ali is a member of the Peabody Awards board of jurors.

Lorraine Ali began her career in the 1990s writing about local Los Angeles music artists for the LA Weekly before becoming a regular writer with the Los Angeles Times under the editorship of Robert Hilburn.

Lorraine Ali has written for Esquire, SPIN, The Village Voice, Adweek, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar and Option.

Lorraine Ali has appeared on Oprah, Charlie Rose, CNN, BBC, among other media outlets, where she has discussed media, entertainment, culture, her relatives in Iraq and American-Muslim issues.

Since the Multi-National Force invasion of Iraq in 2003, Lorraine Ali has published dozens of stories about her extended Iraqi family, the ensuing refugee crisis and President Donald Trump's 2017 travel ban.

Lorraine Ali has written about the portrayal of Muslims in American media, film and television.

Lorraine Ali was awarded an East West Center fellowship in 2016, and a Hedgebrook fellowship in 2011.

Lorraine Ali won Best Online Feature from the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2007, and an Excellence in Journalism Award in 2002 from the National Arab Journalists Association.