Correspondents

Caryle Murphy is Saudi Arabia correspondent for GlobalPost. A long-time reporter for the Washington Post, Murphy has been a foreign correspondent in southern Africa and the Middle East. In 1990, while serving as the Post's bureau chief in Cairo, she was in Kuwait when Iraq invaded the emirate. She remained there for almost a month, part of that time in hiding from Iraqi troops. In 1991, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting for her coverage of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and the subsequent Persian Gulf War. She was the 1994-1995 Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Murphy is the author of Passion for Islam (Scribner 2002), which explains Islam's contemporary revival and the roots of religious extremism in the Middle East. When not abroad, Murphy covered U.S. federal court, immigration policy, and religion for the Post. After leaving the paper to pursue an independent journalism career in 2006, Murphy joined the Post's Web site to help launch its online religion feature, "On Faith." A Massachusetts native, she is a graduate of Trinity University in Washington, D.C. and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.