Lauren Bohn

Lauren Bohn is The GroundTruth Project’s former editor-at-large and Middle East correspondent, based in Istanbul. Previously, she was a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and a Fulbright fellow in Egypt. She’s the co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, a start-up incubator and fellowship program dedicated to changing the ratio and getting more women miked and bylined. She’s also the co-founder of SchoolCycle, a United Nations Foundation initiative to provide bikes to girls in Malawi so they can get to school more quickly and safely.

Kubra Golge (pictured) says her husband, Serkan, has been held on bogus charges by the Turkish government. (Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)

Rights

A NASA scientist’s detention reveals Turkey’s paranoia

Last year on the eve of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month, Kubra Golge was tending to her garden in...

GroundTruth journalists Lauren Bohn and Tugba Tekerek FaceTime with journalist Fatih Yagmur, now in relative hiding in an undisclosed African country. (Photo by Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)

Media Industry

On World Press Freedom Day, Turkey doesn’t hesitate to target journalists

For Fatih Yagmur, a 31-year-old, award-winning Turkish journalist, World Press Freedom Day doesn’t mean much. “It doesn’t mean...

The town of Antakya, in southern Turkey, where NASA scientist Serkan Golge has been kept in prison for the past nine months (Photo by Chanilim714/Wikimedia Commons)

Rights

NASA scientist imprisoned in Turkey ordered to remain behind bars

ANTAKYA, Turkey — There was a time when a typical Monday afternoon for Serkan Golge entailed calculating the effects...

Kirollos is the brother of Bishoy Danial who died in the Palm Sunday suicide bombing in Tanta. He is holding the vestment that his father, Priest Daniel, wore during the attack. Tanta, Egypt, April 12, 2017 (Photo by Roger Anis/GroundTruth)

Faith

The Agony

The Agony: Egypt's Coptic Christians traumatized by Palm Sunday bombings Good Friday was commemorated with a service at...

Rights

No hard evidence against a NASA scientist imprisoned in Turkey

A NASA scientist, Serkan Golge, has spent the last eight months in a Turkish prison. An attempted coup...

Matias Melquiades, 5, poses with the "super black power" cape at the Black Power Girls Annual Fair. This and other representative toys and dolls are made by the company created by his parents, Leandro and Jaciana. (Photo by Leonardo Coelho/GroundTruth)

Rights

‘Tombamento’ – Black Brazilian women’s ongoing struggle for power

There's a slang word in Brazilian Portuguese that has come to describe the fierce style and unapologetic verve...

A protester holds up a sign that reads, "No ban, no wall" at a rally against President Trump's "Muslim Ban" on Jan. 26, 2017. (Photo by Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons)

Americas

‘I have faith this country will keep their doors open’

GroundTruth's Lauren Bohn inteviewed Ibtisam Masto, a Syrian refugee living in Cincinnati, Ohio. The day I heard about Trump's...

An inflatable boat with Syrian Refugees arrives safely to Skala Sykamias, Lesvos island, Greece, in 2015. (Photo by Ggia/Wikimedia Commons)

Americas

‘How do we remind people of our shared humanity?’

GroundTruth's Lauren Bohn interviewed Melissa Fleming, chief spokesperson of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, about Trump's "Muslim...

Anna Fierst, the great-granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt (center), holds up a sign that says, "Together We Stand." (Photo by Beth Murphy/GroundTruth)

Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt’s great-granddaughter walked in the Women’s March

Anna Fierst, 61, woke up early Saturday in Washington, D.C. with a fire in her chest – the...

The destroyed courtyard of Qaraqoosh's Al-Taheera church, the largest in Iraq and one of the biggest in the Middle East. ISIS transformed the grounds into a shooting range with mannequins from a nearby clothing shop. (Photo by Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)

Faith

‘Where do we go from here?’ Deep wounds and dark memories for Christians in Iraq

QARAQOSH, Iraq – On Sunday, 17-year-old Ismael Al Kanon will celebrate his favorite holiday, Christmas, for the first...

Democracy

Big media’s epic failure on America’s angriest election

LONDON — America may elect its first woman president on Tuesday. But the historic shattering of one of...

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