Fellows & Editors
Amie Ferris-Rotman
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Russia
- Year:
- 2017
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Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist based in Moscow, where she writes for Foreign Policy, among others. She was previously senior correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Moscow. In addition to two extensive tours in Afghanistan and Russia with Reuters, Ferris-Rotman has reported from over a dozen countries for The Atlantic, Haaretz, Politico and other publications. She has twice been an International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellow, where she covered the Nepal earthquake and produced a series on religion in Ukraine, making her a finalist for the 2015 Religion Newswriters Association's Features Award. In 2013, she was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where she developed Sahar Speaks, a new program for Afghan female journalists in collaboration with The Huffington Post -- for which she won the 2015 Georgina Henry Women in Journalism Award. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Russian Studies from University College London.
Ferris-Rotman was awarded two prior fellowships with IRP, reporting from Ukraine in 2014 and Nepal in 2015.
Stories
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Russia’s Disappearing Women
When they were younger, before their son was born, Maria's boyfriend started hurting her. He would place his hands on her neck and squeeze tightly until her skin turned pink and...
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Scenes From the Nepal Earthquake: One Writer Surveys the Devastation
I had just landed in Doha—my stopover en route to Kathmandu—when a friend in California texted me to ask if I was OK. Confused, I turned to Twitter,...
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How Doctors in Nepal Are Getting Creative to Cope With the Onslaught of Earthquake Victims
In the earthquake's aftermath, broken bones have become one of the most common ailments in Kathmandu. The city’s hospitals have become inundated with fractured limbs and bandage-wrapped heads, in...
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How Drones Are Helping Nepal Recover From the Earthquake
Surrounded by curious onlookers at the historic and now partially destroyed Patan Durbar Square complex, Rahat Kulshreshtha prepares what he has affectionately named his “bird” for flight. Initially slow to...
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She Survived Two Earthquakes, and a Life of Gender Discrimination in Between
In 1934, when a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, Indra Shrestha was a few doors down from where she lives now. Just over a week ago, she experienced the horror all over again. &ldquo...;
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Nepal’s Post-Quake Crisis
Just outside Nepal’s capital, in the ornate temple town of Bhaktapur, residents line up to be sprayed head to toe with disinfectant they believe will save them from the onslaught...
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The Earthquake-Wrecked Town That the Nepali Government Forgot
Cries of anger rose above the din of military helicopters and wails of the injured, as men banged their fists on the metal gate outside the town’s government offices. But...
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Nepal’s Earthquake Babies Offer Rare Glimpse of Hope
Ranjita Shreshta’s firstborn was given a head start on life: the baby girl was born hours before a devastating earthquake wreaked havoc in the Nepali capital, leaving her parents homeless...
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Kathmandu’s Largest Hindu Crematorium Overwhelmed by Demand After Nepal’s Earthquake
A pair of sisters sat next to each other in Kathmandu’s largest Hindu crematorium on Monday, wailing at the sight of their dead children, their small bodies wrapped in orange...
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Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church Looks to Boost Sway—by Equipping Military
{image-1} As the train bringing the wounded soldier home from the front line grinds to a halt, the crowd on the platform bursts into patriotic song. Maj. Ruslan Androsyuk’s three-year-old...
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Partying (and Praying) Like It’s 1899
When not praying, reading the Bible from a blinking iPhone screen, they were dancing, frenziedly shaking their ringlets into a blur. Sometimes, they managed both simultaneously. This past Rosh Hashana, the Jewish...
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Stateless in Ukraine
{image-1} For a small community of ethnic Turks who have lived peacefully in Ukraine for twenty-five years, the current conflict is allowing the dream of a distant homeland to resurface. “With...
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Sloviansk: A City With PTSD
Psychologist Tatyana Aslanyan is on a mission to treat a city that seems to be suffering from a collective form of post-traumatic stress disorder. “Everyone, in some way or another, shows...
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Prayer, Techno Music and Skinny Dipping: Celebrating Jewish New Year in Ukraine
Rabbi Nachman, founder of the Hasidic Breslov movement, taught his followers to vanquish sadness through private prayer and celebration. On his deathbed in 1810, he asked that Jews visit his grave annually ...;
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The Scattering of Ukraine’s Jews
{image-1} A Jewish IDP from Luhansk eats lunch in the Shpola camp in central Ukraine. (Courtesy of Joël van Houdt) Aleksandr Zadov recalls the last time war forced him out...
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