Fellows & Editors
Paul Raymond
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Mali
- Year:
- 2015
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Paul Raymond is a freelance journalist based in London. A fluent Arabic speaker, he spent years studying and working in the Middle East and North Africa before becoming a journalist. He worked for an NGO in Jerusalem for 3 years prior to joining McClatchy Newspapers to report on Syria. Since then, he has reported from Turkey, Morocco and the UK for The Economist, Al Jazeera, Daily Beast, BBC World Service and others. He was a founding member of the editorial team at NewsFixed, a pitching and commissioning hub linking freelance journalists with editors in need of content. His reporting interests span political, social and economic trends across the MENA region. For his 2015 IRP fellowship to Mali, he reported as a team with Jack Watling.
Stories
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Don’t Call It a Jihadist Insurgency — Yet
{image-1} Malian troops patrol outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako on November 21, 2015. Photo: Habibou Kouyate/AFP/Getty Images On Friday, November 20, two gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in...
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The Struggle for Mali
When fighters linked to al-Qaida swept into Timbuktu on 1 April 2012, Dr Ibrahim Maiga found himself living a nightmare. The new rulers of west Africa’s most famous centre of Islamic scholarship...
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How Was Your Day… Sufi Law Student in Mali?
{image-1} Boubacar O Keita Bamako, Mali I got up at one o’clock this morning, like every morning, to pray with my fellow disciples. Our living space is upstairs, but our...
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Mali’s Voice of Reason
This June, as Mali’s three-year civil war sputtered to an end, representatives of the government, loyalist militias, and the rebels gathered here in the capital to discuss their...
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The Iranian-Saudi Proxy Wars Come to Mali
In a country where two-thirds of the adults are illiterate, it is a privileged few who have the chance to study at the Mustafa International School. Located in the western suburbs of...
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On Patrol With the Soldiers Battling Bandits, Islamist Militants, and Mistrust in Mali
There are 10 of us in the armored personnel carrier, sweating under body armor as we bounce along the road out of Timbuktu on the edge of the Sahara Desert in...
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