I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.
You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, t… - Annia Ciezadlo
You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, t…
- Annia Ciezadlo
The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghan… - Annia Ciezadlo
The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghan…
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private … - Annia Ciezadlo
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private …
There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People r… - Annia Ciezadlo
There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People r…
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and … - Annia Ciezadlo
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and …
But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything… - Annia Ciezadlo
But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything…
But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things… - Annia Ciezadlo
But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things…
Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it ha… - Annia Ciezadlo
Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it ha…
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western edi… - Annia Ciezadlo
I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western edi…
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