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Michael Karam

Michael Karam

Michael Karam is GroundTruth’s Communications Officer. Previously working in communications at Trickle Up, an international poverty alleviation nonprofit partnered with the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, Michael was the refugee team’s storyteller, visiting Zambia and Ecuador to document the experiences of program participants. He has also worked as a translation project manager and often dabbles in translation and interpretation.

He studied economics, international relations and math at the University of Pennsylvania, where his thesis focused on the multilingual media frameworks of Hezbollah and his independent study analyzed queer language in his home country of Lebanon. Michael is fluent in Arabic and French, knows some Spanish and is currently learning Farsi.
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Report for the World fights global news crisis, more than doubles corps size

Dec 01, 2021
Columns

Back to school – and inspiring the next generation of journalists

When Megan Botel was in Mr. Tyrell-Smith’s fifth grade class, she wrote a poem on a brown paper...

Sep 30, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN BEIRUT, LEBANON

Helping Beirut dig out of the rubble, and bearing witness to the grief of a broken city

BEIRUT – The streets are lined with dust. On car windows, people have scrawled messages, displacing the dirt...

Aug 07, 2020
COVID-19 Special Report

TruthTalks: Reporting from the frontlines of COVID-19

In this panel and Q&A, three journalists talked about their experiences reporting from the new frontlines: COVID-19. Foreign...

May 20, 2020

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