Fellows & Editors
Ariel Zirulnick
- Trip:
- Ethiopia 2014
- Affiliation:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Country:
- Ethiopia
- Year:
- 2014
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Ariel Zirulnick is the Middle East editor at The Christian Science Monitor, overseeing online and magazine coverage of the Middle East and North Africa. She has previously reported from Lebanon, Egypt, and Israel and was a 2011 Fulbright fellow in Berlin. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and international studies and has previously reported for the Knight Foundation-funded News21, The Jerusalem Post, Atlantic Media, and The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s independent student daily.
Stories
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Ebola a ‘Shared’ African Problem, Yet Nations Look to Their Own Needs
East African leaders today acknowledged that West Africa's Ebola outbreak is unprecedented in severity and scope, and too big for that region to handle by itself. Yet at a gathering in...
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In Ethiopia, Family Planning Increasingly an Article Of Faith
Religious figures have been preaching the gospel of family planning here in Africa's second most populous nation. The result: a whittling of the fertility rate, and a leap in contraceptive use. ...
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Ethiopia’s Key to Safer Births? Better Roads
From the booming capital of Addis Ababa to Ethiopia’s remotest border regions, excavators are busy scraping earth, making way for roads that will finally connect the far...
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Fishermen Ply Ethiopia’s Largest Lake in Papyrus Boats, but Hope for Better
{image-1} As other fishermen haul in their catch a little after dawn, Temasgen Zelalem is just beginning to drop his net. Looking weary in the faint morning light, Mr. Temasgen says it...
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Why USAID Is Shifting Maternal Health Funds Toward Africa, Asia
The US Agency for International Development announced today that 26 countries have done so well at achieving maternal and child health goals that they’re now on their own. Their...
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