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.)
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Now in the IHT/NYT: The latest story from Bangladesh
January 4, 2010 – 3:21 am
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in Environment, General News, The New York Times
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Tagged Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh, Barisal, climate change, Dhaka, environmental migrants, International Herald Tribune, Korail, mega-cities, Rabab Fatima, Saleemul Huq, slums
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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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By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in Environment, General News
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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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From Boulder to Bangladesh
July 9, 2009 – 9:54 am
Am very grateful to be selected as one of the 2009 International Reporting Project fellows at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Will head to Washington D.C. and then Bangladesh in a few weeks.
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Ottoman Whispers in a Secret Corner of Greece
June 27, 2009 – 1:58 pm
THE old men in skullcaps hiked up the cobblestone steps in the last bruised light of dusk. They passed Gypsy merchants draped in rugs that were for sale, engineering students on post-cafe strolls and children chattering in an acrobatic blend of Greek, Turkish and the Slavic language of the Pomaks. They didn’t notice I was [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Tagged East Macedonia, Greece, Kavala, Komotini, Ottoman, Pomakochoria, Pomaks, Rhodope, Thrace, Travel, Xanthi
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Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds
August 22, 2008 – 2:34 pm
THE NEW YORK TIMES
July 27, 2008
Journeys | Crete
Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds
A SPIRALING, slightly treacherous dirt road leads to Aspros Potamos, an enclave of 300-year-old cottages in eastern Crete once used by olive farmers and goatherds. Peaceful and primitive, with stone floors, oil lamps for light and a starry night sky, the cottages, [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Aspros Potamos, Crete, donkeys, Greece, Itanos, oregano, Palaikastro
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Edging Closer in a Divided Capital
May 17, 2008 – 2:37 pm
The New York Times
May 18, 2008
Journeys | Nicosia, Cyprus
LIKE most of Nicosia, the Atolye Cadi Kazani Cafe feels nostalgic. It is awash in jazzy piano music, the scent of cardamom-spiced coffee and an Ottoman ambience that reminds the owner, Nilgun Guney, of her grandmother’s house.
“This is the magic zone,” said Ms. Guney, a Turkish Cypriot [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Also posted in The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Cyprus, Greece, Nicosia, Turkey
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