Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. Ex- LinkedIn News, Le Figaro, The Guardian, The Cambodia Daily. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

012 | Ferdous al-Faruque | "I don't know what you are"

012 | Ferdous al-Faruque | "I don't know what you are"

Why do we feel the need to put people into boxes, to assign categories in order to decipher them? And what happens to those who fit in many... and none at all? I discussed this and other things with Ferdous "Danny" al-Faruque, a third-culture kid all grown up.

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Will Brexit ever end?

Will Brexit ever end?

It's been Groundhog Day since 2016.

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Borderline
011 | Luke McGee | Will Brexit ever end?

011 | Luke McGee | Will Brexit ever end?

Now the EU and UK have less than two months to agree a free trade deal or face a cliff edge. And then, are we done? I caught up with CNN journalist Luke McGee, who’s roamed the halls of power in Brussels and Westminster for years now, to understand

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Stop praising us for our resilience

Stop praising us for our resilience

Why Lebanon is fed up with bearing up

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Borderline
010 | Lynn Chouman |  Why Lebanon is fed up with bearing up

010 | Lynn Chouman | Why Lebanon is fed up with bearing up

Stop praising us for our resilience, says this Lebanese expat.

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What do we owe to the places we're from?

What do we owe to the places we're from?

Borderlives: An American mother on deciding to leave the United States

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Borderline
009 | Janet Matta | What do we owe to the places we're from?

009 | Janet Matta | What do we owe to the places we're from?

Welcome to a new series of intimate conversations with global citizens, who talk about their identity, their choices and what home even means. This week, Janet Matta, an American working mom from Seattle, talks about leaving the United States and continuing a long American tradition – leaving your country to make

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008 | Wade Davis | The end of the American century

008 | Wade Davis | The end of the American century

“Covid-19 revealed the tatters of the American image,” Canadian anthropologist, author and National Geographic explorer Wade Davis wrote in a blockbuster essay this summer. "The unraveling of America" hit a raw nerve. He joins Borderline to discuss the grandeur and decadence of the United States, and what comes

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