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Welcome to Foreign Policy Interrupted's weekly newsletter! Ahead of our launch, we're providing you a weekly aggregation of brain-food served up by female foreign policy experts and other yummy miscellany. Ready, set...
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Read:
This week we sat down with interruptor Noa Meyer, the global head of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 women program, which is interrupting female entrepreneurship worldwide. #huzzah
Jenny Nordberg on the Afghan girls who live as boys
The 'Afghan Spring' turns into an 'Autumn of Discontent' says Helena Malikyar
Syria’s Assad thinks he is winning. He could be wrong - Liz Sly reports
ISIS will not be beaten by a knee-jerk reaction from the West, writes Jane Kinninmont
‘No boots on the ground’ doesn’t mean no combat in Iraq, says Gayle Lemmon
Elizabeth Ferris on the past and future of Iraq's minorities
In southeastern Turkey, Sophia Jones talks to a pro-revolution Syrian schoolteacher who now supports ISIS
Samia Errazzouki writes about Maryam al-Khawaja, a Bahraini human rights activist recently arrested
Italy's FM, Federica Mogherini, is now the EU's Foreign Affairs Rep - Paola Subacchi explains what that means
China sows seeds of crisis in Hong Kong - Sophie Richardson explains
China's education system, Yuxin Gao says, discriminates against the poor and thwarts social mobility
Moscow's blatant aggression in Ukraine is a chance for NATO to prove itself says Kelly Ayotte
The reports of war's demise have been exaggerated says Tanisha Fazal
Pardis Sabeti writes about her colleagues who are studying Ebola, then dying from it
In nine countries on five continents, Journalists for Transparency explored corruption in food that has left people sick, hungry and distrusting - reports from Anna Therese Day, Virginie Nguyen and other interruptors
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ICYMI: We're partnering with The New Republic on a Foreign Policy Interrupted column. That means we want you to pitch us your brilliant ideas. Dudes, you too. We're interrupting (and, thereby, disrupting) the same ole foreign policy conversation by amplifying not only female voices, but also interesting dimensions of foreign policy that lie on the edges. Ladies and Gentleman: Ready, set, PITCH.
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(At which point you're wondering...)
Wait, who wrote this?
Elmira Bayrasli and Lauren Bohn, two foreign policy fiends dedicated to getting more female foreign policy experts miked and bylined.
And how are you going to do that?
We’re targeting women involved in foreign policy or with foreign policy expertise but who lack the capacity and exposure to major media outlets. Through a fellowship program, involving media training and editorial mentorships at major outlets, we're changing the ratio. Watch this space.
Meanwhile, read our Council on Foreign Relations interview with Micah Zenko on our big plans (and yes, there will be cocktails).
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