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Elizabeth Hagedorn is Al-Monitor's State Department correspondent, reporting on events shaping US policy in the Middle East and North Africa. In this role, she has traveled to the region as part of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s press pool. Hagedorn has conducted sit-down interviews with the foreign ministers of Iran, Oman, Jordan and Algeria as well as senior members of the State Department. She previously reported on the region as a freelance journalist in Turkey and Iraq for publications including Middle East Eye, The National and The Guardian. On Twitter: @ElizHagedorn. Email: ehagedorn@al-monitor.com.
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Elizabeth Hagedorn
In Washington, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights