Isabelle Roughol

Journalist. Founder & host of Borderline. Former international editor of LinkedIn, foreign editor at Le Figaro, reporter at The Cambodia Daily. Global soul, messy accent.

"The desert stretches as far as the Earth exists" (Arizona, 2020)

"The desert stretches as far as the Earth exists" (Arizona, 2020)

The eye goes and goes until, almost in Mexico, hills rise as if God pinched up the tablecloth.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Travel & free movement
Let's not mistake a corporate rebrand for a feminist moment

Let's not mistake a corporate rebrand for a feminist moment

Barbie is as feminist as a Lean In circle and a "You can have it all" essay in Cosmo.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Culture
What being an exchange student did for me – and why every teen should have the same chance

What being an exchange student did for me – and why every teen should have the same chance

This is the speech I gave at the Rotary International Youth Exchange Officers 2023 Preconvention on 26 May 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. I am an alumna of the programme, which transformed my life.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Travel & free movement
Every resource you need to start a solo podcast without breaking the bank

Every resource you need to start a solo podcast without breaking the bank

Record, edit, source music and archives... free tools for every step in podcasting.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Media
053 | Thierry Cruvellier | Ukraine's other war

053 | Thierry Cruvellier | Ukraine's other war

Ukraine wages war on the ground, in media... and in the courts.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
What's happening in Borderline's cover art?

What's happening in Borderline's cover art?

Noboby asked but I'll explain anyway.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Marine Le Pen has not changed

Marine Le Pen has not changed

Islamophobia, xenophobia, discrimination: Le Pen’s manifesto shows her as she always was

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Geopolitics
We need to start telling better stories about immigration

We need to start telling better stories about immigration

"Storytelling is the only place where nuance can happen," says Jose Antonio Vargas

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Immigration & asylum