Caryle Murphy
American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Caryle Murphy is an American journalist whose work has earned a Pulitzer Prize. She is best known for her coverage of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and the Gulf War that followed.
Quick Facts
- Field
- Journalism
- Nationality
- American
- Known for
- Coverage of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and the Gulf War
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Did You Know?
- Murphy was the 1994–1995 Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
- In 2002, Emran Qureshi described her work as offering careful reporting and cogent analysis on Islam in the Arab world.
- She wrote Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience and A Kingdom's Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of its Twentysomethings.
Working life
Caryle Murphy reported from Saudi Arabia for GlobalPost and The National. As a Washington Post foreign correspondent, she covered South Africa after the Soweto uprising and Steve Biko’s killing, led the Cairo bureau overseeing Arab world coverage, and reported from Kuwait during the Iraqi border crossing and occupation. She was on the Gulf War reporting team from Southern Arabia and spent three months in Baghdad. Domestically, she has covered U.S. immigration policy, the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and religion. She also served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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