Julia Simon is a radio journalist from California who has worked for APM’s Marketplace, PRI’s The World, NPR News, and BBC News.
I'm a radio journalist from California.
I have worked for APM’s Marketplace, PRI’s The World, NPR News, and BBC News.
I spent two years reporting in Egypt – one year before the revolution, one year after. I've also reported from Tunisia and Kenya. In 2010-2011 I was a Henry Luce Scholar based in Indonesia where I was an editor, producer and guest host of a weekly radio news show called "Asia Calling".
I recently received a Fulbright Research Grant to study the oil and gas sector in Nigeria.
I speak Egyptian Arabic, Indonesian, and Spanish. I'm working on my French and Swahili.
I love economics, soccer, hiking, and old Hollywood detective movies.
Tomatoes are a prized staple in Nigeria, but there's a severe shortage and prices are soaring. At first, many people has conspiracy theories about what caused the shortage.
'Oma and Bella' is a documentary about two Jewish women in their 80s living in Berlin. Reporter Julia Simon talks to the filmmaker, who is the grand daughter of one of the women.
Villa Aurora in the Pacific Palisades of Los Angeles was a refuge for writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta after they fled the Nazis. Now, as Julia Simon reports, it provides a temporary home for other persecuted writers from around the world.
"Bekya! Bekya!" is the call of the Egyptian junk collectors and the cries reveal a lot about Egypt's economy.
Egyptians are not the only ones demanding human rights in a new Egypt. Another group is also seeking protective rights in Egypt - foreign domestic workers.
Egypt could get some guidance from Indonesia where a revolution cut short the military rule and produced a fledgling democracy.
Julia Simon reports on how the Nubians, one of Egypt's overlooked minority groups, are viewing elections there.
This northern African country is home to an online satirical newspaper named after the national dish.
In a tax dispute with Indonesia's government, Hollywood studios have stopped sending movies there.
A pro-democracy uprising in a Muslim country with the aim to unseat a dictator in power for nearly three decades: No, it's not Egypt 2011, it's Indonesia 1998. Julia Simon spoke with one leader of Indonesia's 1998 reform movement about parallels he