LORRAINE MALLINDER

ABOUT………..WRITING ………..RADIO ………..PHOTOS ………..VIDEO ………..

I’m a freelance journalist, published by the BBC, RTÉ, The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Radio Canada, Le Point, La Presse and many others.
In recent times, I’ve covered stories like the aftermath of Islamic State in Iraq, the march of Hungary’s far-right, civil war in Cameroon, narco-trafficking in Guinea Bissau and modern slavery in Pakistan. I’m also a cookery columnist for German educational magazine Spotlight.
Previously based in Belgium and Canada, I now work from my native Scotland. I do both print and broadcast – in English and French. Contact me here.
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RECENT WORK

Iran’s hidden war in Iraq RTÉ (01/20) @12.23 mins Radio report on fighting between Iran and its exiled Kurds. Amid mounting hostilities with the US, Tehran feared that they might be used as strike weapons to attack the regime. So it started courting them in secret talks.	‘We are only 1,000, but we fight like 10,000.’ The Irish Times (12/19) In the hills of northern Iraq, I meet showman general Hussein Yazdanpanah, whose Iranian Kurdish fighters are fighting against a resurgent Islamic State and the Tehran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militias.	The best weapon against war in Iraq is a waistcoat The Irish Times (10/19) For the dapper young men at Mr Erbil, style is survival. In their emporium of hip, espressos are sipped and style flaunted as chaos and menace swirl outside. No talk of religion or politics permitted.
‘You live with these men as a slave. It’s free for them to do anything’ The Irish Times (10/19) Naveen Rasho endured five years of hell at the hands of Islamic State. She survived the fall of the caliphate in Baghuz, only to face the fresh horror of detention at Al Hawl camp in Syria with her captor’s three brides.	Lives shattered, Syria’s Kurds flee to Iraq The Irish Times (10/19) Dependent on what she describes as a “spider’s web” of drivers and smugglers, Gulistan and her family pushed blindly through the confusion of an eight-year civil war that had recently taken yet another deadly turn.	Cherry: A life stranger than fiction Spotlight (07/19) Nico Walker served as an army medic in Iraq’s ‘Triangle of Death’. Returning home with severe PTSD, he turned to heroin and bank robberies. Now in prison, he has reinvented himself as a bestselling novelist.

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GREATEST HITS

Global Ear: Dé:Nash The Wire (08/19) Hungarian rapper Dé:Nash mines his country’s collective consciousness, satirising the Fidesz regime’s use of ancient legend and historical grievances to craft a new national narrative.	’Licence to kill’ New Internationalist (05/19) Cameroon’s bloody conflict between the regime and separatist rebels has been raging nearly three years. Government forces wield their ‘licence to kill’ liberally, with utter impunity.	Interview: Guinea-Bissau’s president Al Jazeera (03/19) José Mário Vaz, president of Guinea-Bissau, appeals to world for help in fighting the cocaine cartels that he says are still using the fragile state as a trafficking hub.
Inside Hungary’s post-truth laboratory New Internationalist (08/18)	Pakistan’s bonded labourers fight back The Irish Times (07/18)	Imran Khan battles conspiracies in Pakistan election The Irish Times (07/18)
A kilo of cocaine BBC Radio 4 (04/18)	Making honey from Africa’s killer bees The Guardian (12/17)	Philip Taylor – La politique, je l’ai dans le sang  Le Point (12/17)
Interview with Liberian president George Weah The Irish Times (10/17)	Liberia’s forgotten child soldiers Al Jazeera (10/17)	A dictator in the family The New Statesman (02/17)
Trans people risk lives in Turkey GlobalPost/PRI (12/16)	Interview with Gambian president The Irish Times (12/16)	Lunch with Boris Johnson’s Turkish cousin The Irish Times (05/16)
Being Muslim in France Al Jazeera (12/15)	Paris attacks report GlobalPost (11/15)	Fighting Russia’s propaganda machine GlobalPost (08/15)
It’s a ‘No’ from Greece vieuws.eu (07/15)	A prison without bars Al Jazeera (03/15)	Making maple syrup BBC News (05/14)
The crack-smoking mayor BBC News (11/13)	Trouble in paradise Noseweek South Africa (05/13)	Interview with Alex Salmond La Presse (08/12)
In search of Philip Marlowe The Montreal Gazette (05/12)	Beaver or polar bear? BBC Radio 4/World Service (12/11) @ 17.54 mins	‘Illegal’ midwives on call The Montreal Gazette (08/11)
Canada’s contraband capital BBC (04/11)	Deadly Secret Canada’s History (04/11)	Spirits of a community The Montreal Gazette (02/11)
Holiday in Asbestos The Guardian (05/10)	Death of a godfather BBC World Service (11/10) @ 11.20 mins	Chagos people press to return home GlobalPost (09/10)
War and peace Police Review (07/10)	Fighting for their identity The Irish Times (07/10)	Holy rivalry over Kateri The Montreal Gazette (03/10)

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