Fellows & Editors
Julian Hattem
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Myanmar
- Year:
- 2017
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Julian Hattem is a freelance journalist based in East Africa who focuses on issues of conflict, law, international politics and popular culture. He has written for outlets including the Guardian, the Washington Post, Public Radio International, World Politics Review, the Atlantic and Quartz, among others. He previously spent several years in Washington, D.C., as a staff writer with The Hill, most recently covering national security and foreign policy. Before that, he reported on the White House and U.S. politics for the Japanese newspaper the Yomiuri Shimbun. He grew up in Arizona and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.
Stories
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You’re welcome to visit the longest beach in the world — unless you’re a refugee
It was a hot Saturday in May when Bangladesh’s prime minister dipped her feet in the ocean. Sheikh Hasina was visiting the beach town of Cox’s Bazar and,...
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Potentially the World’s Least Fun Beach Beer
Outside, the Indian Ocean was the temperature of bath water, lapping gently at the shore. The dull murmur of the waves was barely audible above the incessant horns of passing rickshaws and...
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With a forgotten temple city, Myanmar hopes to strike tourism gold
When time began there lived a lonely monkey who met a peacock, who laid an egg from which was born a mighty prince who built a city on the spot of his...
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