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Esperance Ghanem on why she writes

Al-Monitor contributor Esperance Ghanem shares her thoughts on journalism.
A Forensic inspector and Lebanese army soldiers work at a site of explosion that occured on Monday night in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut June 24, 2014. A suicide bomber blew up his car in Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing a security officer and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe. Security forces have been on high alert since a suicide bomber killed one person and wounded 37 near the Syrian border on Friday in an attack that nar

Esperance Ghanem, a news anchor on Lebanese channel OTV, has been writing for Al-Monitor since August 2014. She previously worked as a newspaper and TV reporter, a correspondent in the Lebanese presidential palace and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as editor for the UN section of Al-Balad newspaper.

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