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Shawn Carrié

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Shawn Carrié’s Biography

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Journalism isn't meant to entertain, it's meant to write the history of the present.

I'm a freelance correspondent based in the Middle East covering politics, human rights, and migration. I've always been drawn to tension, conflict & strong emotions – but I firmly believe in rigorous, fact-based reporting that cuts through the polemic and rhetoric that clouds our world, and can help up to understand, and just maybe, improve it.

I've interviewed the family of a teenager killed by police in Fergu…

Shawn Carrié’s Journalist Portfolio

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Captive: Undercover inside Syria's jails

Captive: Undercover inside Syria's jails

Five years of war have decimated much of the country. What remains, however, is the machinery of the regime w…

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In the Face of Terror, Istanbul's Underground Is Still Dancing

In the Face of Terror, Istanbul's Underground Is Still Dancing

Any given Friday night, there's only one place in the world where a gaggle of Saudi teenagers shopping at H&M…

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'Words are our weapon': the Turkish rap epic taking on the government

'Words are our weapon': the Turkish rap epic taking on the government

Pop culture is usually a comfortable distraction, but sometimes it can wake you up. Take the Turkish rap epic…

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Turkey: The Night the Soldiers Came

Turkey: The Night the Soldiers Came

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'It's not legal': UN stands by as Turkey deports vulnerable Syrians

'It's not legal': UN stands by as Turkey deports vulnerable Syrians

When summer began, Ward's* biggest worry was her sick boyfriend. A Syrian with a gentle voice, and all her id…

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The bureaucratic nightmare of obtaining a Syrian passport abroad

The bureaucratic nightmare of obtaining a Syrian passport abroad

A Syrian passport once cost $9 and took only a few hours to issue. As the Syrian conflict enters its seventh …

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Beirut Comes To Its Own Rescue

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By Shawn Carrié Verified
| The Indypendent Verified
The picture on the TV screen fizzles out with the last gasp of electricity, as you hear it cut on the entire street. A welcome quiet, albeit an imposed one — another minute and you probably would’ve thrown something at the TV. You opt for a walk through the city, past the eternal construction sites, the empty vegetable stands and the crackling glass shards of a bank’s broken windows.
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Trayvon Martin, Rodney King, Amadou Diallo: The Violent Evolution of American Racial Injustice

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By Shawn Carrié Verified
| Mic Verified
When Rodney King was brutalized in Los Angeles in 1992, it unleashed the suppressed anger and pain that many people in communities of color knew all too well. People raged in the streets for days. Their indignation was not just at the King incident as an isolated case of a few bad policemen, it was based on years of subjugation by a racist police system, and a society that leaves communities in poverty and decay, bubbling beneath the surface waiting to rupture.
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Where Fashion Meets Politics

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By Shawn Carrié Verified
| The New School Free Press Verified
Everything in society is designed — mythologies, identities, histories, realities. The role of the artist is to critique the world by making, and in doing so recreate the world through a prism of culture, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. The challenge of forward progress is then to solve problems – or at least improve them.
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