Anna Hiatt

Anna Hiatt covers the United Nations and New York City for The Jerusalem Post. She works also as a freelance photographer and reporter, and she's the publisher of an award-winning narrative nonfiction site called The Big Roundtable. A Washington, DC native, Anna earned her bachelors degree in history from UC Berkeley, and later studied at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. As a research fellow at Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, she reported and wrote about the evolution of narrative nonfiction storytelling since the advent of the Internet. She's also an adjunct professor at the Journalism School.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the UN General Assembly.

World leaders call for end of United Nations veto power

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

US accuses Abbas of 'counterproductive' UN speech

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

Abbas denounces 'genocidal' Israel, urges UN to back timetable for Palestinian statehood


Turkish president criticizes UN for failure to act in global crises

Lifting the blockade on Gaza and creating a Palestinian state is a “moral necessity,” Erdoğan says.

Turkey President Recep Tayyip erdogan

US-Arab coalition forces renew Syria strikes as UN debates terror response

Security Council passes legally binding resolution to tackle surge of foreign terrorist fighters.

US President Barack Obama chairs the UN Security Council summit in New York September 24

Time to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks based on Arab Initiative, Jordan's King Abdullah tells UN

UN secretary-general opens body's General Debate which will see some 196 speakers, including Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas, address urgent international crises.

King Abdullah

Egypt's Sisi tells UN General Assembly: Palestinian issue still a priority

Egyptian leader vowed to crack down on Islamist terrorism, which he said must be rooted out "relentlessly."

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addresses the UN General Assembly in New York.

Abbas in NY: We have all made mistakes

Abbas questioned why the US supported Israel throughout the conflict which devastated Gaza, and why Israel was not taken to task for its attacks on UNRWA facilities.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Peretz calls upon Ban Ki-Moon to form multinational Mid East climate team

Leonardo DiCaprio charges world leaders to act decisively to save global ecosystems.

Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz

Ban Ki-moon to address UN Climate Summit, set the groundwork for global climate action agreement

UN will intends to call on heads of state to commit to a legally binding agreement addressing climate change

Solar panels

UN Security Council unanimously declares Ebola outbreak 'threat to international peace'

Israel’s ambassador Ron Prosor expressed his unequivocal support for sending aid workers and funding to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and said that Israel has already begun deploying NGO workers.

A UN convoy of soldiers passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan.

UN says Palestinians, Israelis reach deal on Gaza reconstruction

Serry says UN reached deal to enable reconstruction work in Gaza and giving a lead role to the Palestinian Authority with UN monitoring.

  PA President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry in Ramallah July 6, 2014.

US: Israeli attacks on UNRWA facilities in Gaza war unjustified

‘Suspicion that militants are operating nearby does not justify strikes that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians.’

UNRWA school damaged by fighting in Gaza