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AFP / Safin Hamed

Flesh and blood

Maya Gebeily Tuesday 16 July 2019

"Her dark hair was pulled back by a white scrunchie and she had chipped pink polish on her nails. Like any teenager, I thought," writes Maya Gebeily, a journalist based in Baghdad. 

"Except the words she spoke were as far from a carefree teenagedom as you could get."

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AFP / Franck Fife

As Americans rolled into town

Adrien de Calan Friday 12 July 2019

"You didn’t need to look far to see what made the US team stand out during the women’s football World Cup that finished last weekend," writes Adrien de Calan, a sports journalist based in Paris.

"You could just show up at an event as routine as a press conference."

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AFP / John Macdougall

Berlin nighttime outing

David Courbet Friday 28 June 2019

"The scene was worthy of a spy thriller. We were meeting our contact at midnight, near a supermarket on the outskirts of southeast Berlin. We’ve been trying for two weeks to meet, exchanging messages over the encrypted Telegram app to avoid any detection by the authorities," writes David Courbet, a journalist based in Berlin.

"All the secrecy, all the precautions for a story on... food waste."

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AFP / Karine Perret

A helmeted mass

Karine Perret Tuesday 25 June 2019

"When I applied to cover the religion beat, I never thought I’d have to wear a helmet to do my job," writes Karine Perret, a journalist based in Paris.

"But when it’s the first mass celebrated at the Notre Dame in Paris after a fire ravaged much of the 850-year-old landmark, duty calls…"

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