Just got back from Cyprus, which has been divided since Turkish forces occupied the northern third in 1974.
I was reporting a water story, but managed to get distracted by this adorable Turkish Cypriot girl, who is like a Mediterranean version of Laura Ingalls (but in a jean jacket with pink faux-fur trim).
Ten-year-old Buse Ozyarali likes [...]
Author Archives: Joanna Kakissis
Joanna Kakissis, an award-winning journalist who’s worked in the United States and southeastern Europe, is currently on a Ted Scripps fellowship in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Little house on the cleaved island
February 8, 2010 – 3:32 am
Posted in General News, Photos, Travel + Culture
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Tagged children, cute animals, Cyprus
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What’s left after the Sunday flea market in Athens?
January 13, 2010 – 3:26 pm
A weathered, abandoned portrait of a grandfather from Crete.
Posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Athens, Cretan grandfathers, Crete, flea market, portrait
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Now in the IHT/NYT: The latest story from Bangladesh
January 4, 2010 – 3:21 am
Our story on environmental migrants moving en masse to the megacity of Dhaka is finally in The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. Thanks to photojournalist Ross Taylor’s fantastic images, the story was the front-page centerpiece of the global NYT edition. (Here’s the front page of the IHT’s Asia edition.)
I loved spending time [...]
And I leap into 2010….
January 2, 2010 – 7:34 am
…like this hyper little lamb. I spotted him just outside the Arkadi monastery near Rethymnon, Crete. By the time I took out my camera, he was speeding away.
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Posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Arkadi, Crete, cute animals, family, Rethymnon
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Copenhagen, Hopenhagen, Nopenhagen…
December 20, 2009 – 9:40 am
Here are a couple of stories I did for Al-Jazeera English: one on the public battle over whether climate change is real, and another on the geopolitics of global warming pacts.
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Posted in Environment, General News, My Articles
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Tagged Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, Barack Obama, Chatham House, China, Cleo Paskal, climate change, Geoff Dabelko, geopolitics, global warming, India, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Jerry Meehl, Jim White, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Wilson Center for International Scholars
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Bangladesh’s ‘Climate Migrants’ on PRI’s The World
December 17, 2009 – 2:39 am
Thanks to an outstanding editing job by radio journalist extraordinaire David Baron, the first story from my trip to Bangladesh turned out unbelievably well. And it managed to air during the Copenhagen climate talks. A success, all around!
I will forever be grateful to the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International [...]
Posted in Environment, Photos, Radio
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Tagged Bangladesh, climate migrants, David Baron, International Reporting Project., PRI, SAIS, The World
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