Lorraine Ali is a Los Angeles-based Contributing Editor who's written extensively about culture and the arts since joining Newsweek in 2000. She co-authored Newsweek's widely-acclaimed "The New Infidelity" cover, wrote the popular feature "You and Your Quirky Kid," landed a rare interview with Pearl Jam and, as an Iraqi-American, has contributed several insightful pieces on Arab America and the Iraqi Diaspora overseas ("When Home Becomes Hell)".

Ali joined the magazine in New York as a General Editor and music critic before moving to Los Angeles as a Contributing Editor in March 2004. She has covered everything from abstinence trends among American teens to mafia culture in Southern Italy, and her interview subjects include Jenna Bush, Michael Moore, Hilary Swank, Jay-Z, the Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash.

Ali won Best Online Feature from the New York Association of Black Journalists in 2007, an Excellence in Journalism Award in 2002 from the National Arab Journalists Association, and her story "West Bank Hardcore" appeared in Da Capo "Best Music Writing 2001."

Prior to joining Newsweek, Ali was a senior critic for Rolling Stone, a music columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Mademoiselle, a car columnist for UHF and a regular contributor to GQ.

Ali has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Ladies Home Journal, SPIN, Harper's Bazaar and The Village Voice. She was voted 1997's Music Journalist of the Year. In 1996, she won Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.