Portfolio
Over the years, I have written for at least 35 media outlets, published 2 well-received literary nonfiction books, and developed several commissioned magazines. In this portfolio, you will find a few examples in the areas of storytelling, cultural differences and mental resilience.
Artikel
How do you intervene if the problem family is your relative?
In sommige gezinnen loopt het totaal mis, met de kinderen als grootste slachtoffer. Natuurlijk wil je
Artikel
Sorry I infected you
We geven Covid-19 aan elkaar door, met soms desastreuze gevolgen – én een schuldgevoel. „Ik dacht:
Reportage
Briefly released from Albania's only women's prison
Vervroegde vrijlating wegens goed gedrag zit er voor de gedetineerden van Albaniës enige vrouwengevangenis niet in.
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Lost in Limbo
Photo book
The Grandchildren of Genocide
Stories
Baghdad’s Biggest Loser
Narrative journalism
Meet a Kurdish Commander Who Stares Down ISIS Every Day
Narrative journalism
A romantic people
Boek
Erik
Magazine
Site &
Magazine
Narrative Journalism
Magazine
‘Mom likes me, but not very much’
Reportage
How stories can touch people's hearts
Interview
And you call this a free Iraq?
Reportage
And then a truck explodes
Reportage
Fear in the workplace
Artikel
Sorry I infected you
Artikel
Before things really went wrong, an uncle managed to get him back. How are he and all those boys who joined ISIS back then doing now?
An Iraqi family history.
Report from an Iraqi oil town.
Erik is a one-off glossy, published by the Inspection Council, about the art of inspection.
Werf&, which started as a quarterly magazine and has since grown into a website, focuses specifically on labor market communication—a relatively new field at the time.
The one-off magazine Verhalende Journalistiek introduced the principles of narrative journalism in the Netherlands.
When Jean-Cloude (10) accidentally breaks their mother's phone, he and his brother decide to run away from home—back to the orphanage where they lived until recently.
The Baghdad psychiatrist, who has been my friend since 2011, eventually fled with his family to Malaysia, where he took up a position at a university, dreaming of continuing his work in Britain.
Nathan Thrall received the Pulitzer Prize for his literary nonfiction book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. In it, he tells the story of a Palestinian father who loses his five-year-old son in a bus accident in occupied territory. An interview about the power of storytelling.
The first Western tourists are arriving in Iraq. They are not only visiting the sites from the Old Testament, but also the scene of the war with the West that began in 2003.
A disaster can never be predicted. But you can learn to deal with it. Good communication is paramount.
Kirkuk, February 3, 8:50. On Sunday morning, February 3, at ten to nine, police sergeant Sarhad Qadr hangs his jacket over his office chair.
Lying awake at night because of that presentation, going to your performance review with sweaty palms, secretly hoping that someone else will pick up the phone – some work situations evoke fear. What is behind it?
Early release for good behavior is not an option for the inmates of Albania's only women's prison. Three weeks of vacation a year is. On a road trip with Dori, who has been in prison for drug trafficking for more than six years.
We pass Covid-19 on to each other, sometimes with disastrous consequences – and a sense of guilt. “I thought: what if it goes wrong? That she dies because I came home?”
In some families, things go completely wrong, with the children as the biggest victims. Of course, you want to help them. But what if it's your sister, neighbor or friend?
Lost in Limbo tells the story of a group of Iranian men who had—voluntarily or not—joined the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).
A teen orphaned by the Rwandan genocide makes the heartbreaking choice to abandon her children. Years later, an unshakable bond keeps her bruised boys looking toward the future.
Four years ago, Rwanda took the radical decision to shut down all 34 of its orphanages—making it the first African country to do so. The move aimed to place children in family-based care, but the transition was fraught with difficulties. The country’s orphanages had grown in response to the 1994 genocide, which left thousands of children without parents.
After surviving a car bombing and a freak workplace accident, a young Iraqi man resolves to lose over 300 pounds while dreaming of a life without war.
For hundreds of years, Hussein Yazdanpana’s family has fought for freedom from an endless array of enemy forces. But today’s battle is truly one for the ages.
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