“Male physicians with zero experience in infectious diseases and epidemiology receive more attention than females with expertise," @SaskiaPopescu said. “We are losing so much critical insight and knowledge.”
Miriam Berger
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Miriam Berger
@MiriamABerger
Joined May 2012
- Massive blackouts have hit Iran. Only this time the government is blaming bitcoin mining, an energy-intensive industry that's taken off in Iran due to cheap electricity & high inflation -- & a desire to find ways to work around suffocating U.S. sanctions.
- Mahsa Amini broke the barrier. The deaths of other girls & women are adding to the fire. Like #NikaShakarami, 16, whose family says security forces abducted at a protest & disappeared for 10 days. Now her aunt is jailed & family in danger for speaking out
- The watermelon has long served in Palestinian iconography as a subversive stand-in for the national flag, banned by Israel. Now the 🍉 is finding new resonance online as a tactic for circumventing social media censorship
- Super stoked to start working with such a stellar team and newspaper from DC! Freelancing abroad has been a wonderful, wild ride but an evergreen reminder: Pay your freelancers well and on time :)I'm happy to announce that @MiriamABerger will join @washingtonpost as a staff writer, part of Foreign's newsroom-based team whose work adds speed and depth to our on-the-ground coverage from nearly 30 correspondents around the world. washingtonpost.com/pr/2019/08/28/…
- I spoke with female scientists from Europe & North America, some who've devoted their careers to studying pathogens like coronaviruses, about the lack of female voices in media coverage of and policy debates around the pandemic.
- '“So they are leaving us for oil?” asked one man in a clinic Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he said he now feared for his security if he spoke to American journalists" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e… via @leloveluck
- Over the fall & winter a colleague and I connected with artists in Iran, who shared w/ us their work & hopes & fears & insights capturing the #WomanLifeFreedom uprising under censorship and surveillance. Their startling artwork here ->
- @ForensicArchi analyzed CCTV footage of the Israeli raid on the Palestinian human rights group @alhaq_org last month. They found soldiers busting down doors, rummaging thru documents & taking selfies.
- A colleague's account of Shireen Abu Akleh's last moments in Jenin. “I heard Shireen scream, ‘Ali has been shot! Ali has been shot!’” he said. “Then they shot Shireen. She dropped dead immediately... [The Israeli army] shot at us directly & deliberately.” washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/…
- In the year since her death, Shireen Abu Akleh’s family has demanded an independent investigation — and justice. The U.S. government pledges to protect its citizens and media freedoms. But Abu Akleh’s family is still waiting.
- Joe Akiki, 23, worked at Beirut's port. He'd wanted to go abroad but his mother told him to stay & "water the cedars" of Lebanon. Instead he died in the Beirut blast &, as one tribute lamented, watered Lebanon w/ his blood. Every victim, another heartbreak
- The burden of documenting what happens around Al Aqsa Mosque during prayers typically falls on Palestinian journalists, as non-Muslims aren't allowed in. But they in turn are being targeted and beaten by Israeli police or denied access @OrenZiv1985 reports
- Journalists are accusing @PittsburghPG of barring black reporters from covering protests & censoring related coverage. My report, with this advice from one of the journos @alexisjreports: “speak up... you’ll be surprised by how many ppl will support you” washingtonpost.com/media/2020/06/…
