A Conversation With Vivian Salama | 02/06/2024
The Outlook
English - February 28, 2024 01:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBPolitics News News Commentary international relations foreign affairs international news foreign policy international affairs Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Vivian Salama covers national security for the Wall Street Journal, based in Washington. She has covered U.S. foreign policy and national security issues for nearly two decades, reporting from more than 80 countries. Before moving to Washington, she served as Baghdad bureau chief for the Associated Press, during which time she covered the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, as well as Iran's growing influence across the region. She also covered the refugee and IDP crisis spurred by the violence, visiting camps across the Middle East. The experience inspired Salama to write a children's book -- The Long Journey Home -- about an innocent Syrian boy who is forced to flee his home because of the war.