Caryle Murphy

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Caryle Murphy is an American journalist. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize.

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Working life

Murphy has worked in America as a reporter for The Washington Post and for The Christian Science Monitor . [1] She has worked for the GlobalPost and The National while in Saudi Arabia. As a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, she reported in the following regions: South Africa (following the Soweto uprising and Steve Biko slaying by the police); Cairo as bureau chief, in charge of Arab world coverage; and Kuwait during border crossing and subsequent Emirate occupation by Iraqi forces. She was part of team covering the Gulf War from Southern Arabia, and she was a reporter for three months during a tour of duty in Baghdad. [2]

In terms of her work in America, she is on top of coverage in the following areas: American immigration policy, American federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and religion.

She has also been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Murphy is probably best known for her coverage of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and the Gulf War (1990–91) that ensued. [3]

Recognition

Murphy was the 1994–1995 Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. [4] In 2002, in the Washington Post's Book World she was described by Emran Qureshi, as having engaged in "careful reporting and cogent analysis [that] present[ed] readers with an indispensable opportunity to understand how the variegated strands of Islam – tolerant reformist traditions as well as militant anti-Western ones – have taken root in the Arab world's most vital civilization."

Publications

Murphy has written two books: Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience, and A Kingdom's Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of its Twentysomethings (illustrated by Kathy Buttefield). [5] [6]

Awards

Murphy has received many awards including:

Personal life

Murphy grew up in Massachusetts. She graduated Trinity University in Washington, D.C., and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

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References

  1. "Caryle Murphy". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. "Caryle Murphy". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. "Meet the Journalist: Caryle Murphy in Saudi Arabia". Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  4. "Caryle Murphy". Wilson Center. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "Caryle Murphy". Global Post. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  6. "Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom's Future". YouTube. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  7. Murphy, Caryle (2014-03-27). "America's Role in Riyadh". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-04-20.