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Lauren Bohn

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.
War and Peace

The making of a Syrian refugee celebrity chef — in Gaza

This article was published in partnership with PRI's The World and GroundTruth's 2015 Middle East fellow, Dalia Mortada...

Oct 29, 2015
War and Peace

Meet five of Gaza’s brightest entrepreneurs

This article was published in partnership with PRI's The World.  Last summer's 50-day war, in which 2,000 Palestinians...

Oct 28, 2015
War and Peace

‘All Our Young People Have Gone to the Mountains’

This article was published in partnership with The Atlantic magazine. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey—It was nearly midnight on July 23...

Aug 18, 2015
War and Peace

A Startup for Geeks in Gaza

This article was published in partnership with The New York Times. Read Vox's write-up of Lauren's reportage here....

Jul 24, 2015
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Democracy

Here are 6 women trying — against all odds — to build a future for Gaza

This article was published in partnership with PRI's The World. Madeleine Kulab grew up by Gaza’s glistening blue...

Jul 10, 2015
Middle East

Turkey’s LGBT community shaken by police crackdown

This article was published in partnership with Mashable. This year’s gay pride celebration in Istanbul was going to be...

Jun 29, 2015
Middle East

Love in the Time of Civil War

This article was published in partnership with the Atlantic magazine. ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan—During almost four years of...

Feb 14, 2015
World

The world’s largest-ever generation sees burden and opportunity

ISTANBUL, Turkey and ABUJA, Nigeria — Today’s generation of young people is the largest in the history of...

Dec 05, 2014
Middle East

After latest violence, Egypt’s Coptic Christians say it’s the same old story

This is the fifth in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. CAIRO...

Apr 12, 2013
Middle East

Shadi Hamid: The “trade-offs” of democracy

“If they want to do things that we think are really bad, then that’s sort of what democracy’s...

Oct 17, 2011
Middle East

Heba Morayef: Human rights and Egypt’s public

A conversation with one of Egypt's leading human rights advocates.

Oct 17, 2011
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