Ep.1: Thinking out Loud with Roula Khalaf

0:00 Intro 4:13 Media Role 10:33 A Voice for Women 11:30 Who is JanetBot? 18:54 Stories from the Ground 23:05 Arab Spring 2.0 Video edition: https://youtu.be/9JQnxe8_LPg Roula Khalaf is Editor of the Financial Times. She was previously deputy editor from 2016 to 2020, overseeing a range of newsroom initiatives and award winning editorial projects and leading a global network of over 100 foreign correspondents. Before taking up the deputy editor role, Khalaf was the FT's foreign editor and oversaw the FT's operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Before that, as Middle East editor, she launched a Middle East edition and led coverage of the Arab Spring. Khalaf was named foreign commentator of the year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards in 2016 and her series on Qatar won the Foreign Press Association’s Feature story of the year in 2013. She joined the FT in 1995 as North Africa correspondent and before that was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York. This podcast is currently available in audio format on Soundcloud. More platforms will be added shortly. NB: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the American University of Beirut, or UN Women, the United Nations, or any of its affiliated organizations. UN Women is grateful for financial support for this activity from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. This episode is produced by Ronnie Chatah (@thebeirutbanyan). Music by Marc Codsi. Video subtitles by Sara Hamzeh.