Donatella Lorch

Donatella Lorch is a journalist based in Nepal.

I am a former New York Times foreign correspondent and a former correspondent for NBC News and Newsweek. I am also a mom of four, a wanderer and I love living overseas. For four years, I was based in Nairobi, Kenya, mostly working as a media consultant for the United Nations and the United States Agency for International Development. I moved to Kathmandu, Nepal in August 2013.

Ankara explosion

A crater is repaired, but it’s harder to push past the damage in Ankara

March 15, 2016Conflict

She was cooking dinner when the blast went off. Her 11-year-old son asked if it were thunder. She knew better.

Residents of the village of Khokana, near Kathmandu, are living in tents after many of their homes collapsed in the earthquake of April 25, 2015.

‘My fear is always alive in my mind’ — the aftermath of the earthquake in one Nepali village

April 27, 2015Culture

Donatella Lorch's son running the dunes just before sunset.

A dream realized: Adventure in Arabian Peninsula’s ‘Empty Quarter’

February 25, 2015Culture

The author's mother celebrates her 93rd birthday in Kenya

This mom let her daughter skip the dishes so she could read Tolstoy

December 12, 2014Culture