Marie Doezema

GlobalPost

Marie Doezema has worked over the past ten years as a writer, editor, radio and television producer in the US, France, Japan and Qatar. She spent four years as a staff writer at The Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune in Tokyo before moving to Qatar to work as an editor and correspondent in Doha. She has also worked in San Francisco with independent radio producers The Kitchen Sisters on developing two new series for National Public Radio, The Hidden World of Girls and Hidden Kitchens World. Marie has a master’s degree in science and health writing from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and most recently has been working as a Paris correspondent for various international publications and as a producer for an African news agency that broadcasts in French, English and Arabic.


Berlin: Multi-culti capital matures

Lifestyle

Gentrification and innovation are changing the city’s post-Cold War face.

Climate change threatens French wine

Lifestyle

Documentary film shakes up Italy

Politics

Iranian LGBTs flee persecution via ‘underground railroad’

Conflict

Sex change operations legal in Iran but still perilous

Conflict

Profiling Iran’s LGBT refugees: Resisting unwanted sex changes

Conflict

Shervin: “My mother knew I was different so she took me to a doctor. [He] pulled his hair and said, ‘What’s wrong with this child?’”

Profiling Iran’s LGBT refugees: From activist to outcast

Conflict

Arash: ‘My friends tell me that if I go back to Iran, the government will welcome me home by killing me.’

Profiling Iran’s LGBT refugees: From double life to greater freedom abroad

Conflict

Danial: ‘Everyone looks at me like I’m a stranger. But there’s one thing that makes it better: I have the right to live here.’

Profiling Iran’s LGBT refugees: Leaving without time to pack

Conflict

AliReza: ‘You construct a future in Iran, you destroy it, and then you come here. If I wasn’t forced, I would have never left. It’s my homeland and I have everything there.’

British leaders confront gay conversion therapy

Conflict

Parliament is considering a ban on a practice some lawmakers are calling ‘insane’ and ‘dangerous.’