FP Interrupted features Middle East and North Africa correspondent Sarah Birke, on Syria, ISIS, and the business of female interrupting: “don’t take any shit.” Take note, ladies.
This week FPI talked to Sarah Birke, Middle East and North Africa correspondent for The Economist, a British weekly with semi-anonymous journalists (it has no bylines). We think it’s high time you meet the brains behind some of the magazine’s best pieces on the region
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Sarah is currently based in Cairo but reports on countries across the region from Syria — her home for three years and where her soul still resides — to Algeria, producer of the region’s best wine. She’s also reported on Sudan’s stagnant politics and Saudi Arabia’s taste for social media.
Fun-fact: She likes to play scrabble in Middle Eastern monuments. A favorite was a game in a small amphitheatre in Shahba, southern Syria (she can’t remember who won).
FPI: You’ve been reporting on Syria for the past several years. Can you give us a diagnosis? A prognosis?
It’s horrific; an absolute tragedy. Over 160,000 Syrians have been…
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