Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, public historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. ๐ŸŽ“ Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

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.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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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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Isabelle Roughol
๐ŸŽง 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 โ€“ leaving your country to make

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Isabelle Roughol
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008 | Wade Davis | The end of the American century

008 | Wade Davis | The end of the American century

โ€œCovid-19 revealed the tatters of the American image,โ€ 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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Isabelle Roughol
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Is the American century over?

Is the American century over?

A conversation with anthropologist and National Geographic explorer Wade Davis

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Isabelle Roughol
Geopolitics
A country as a fortress: tens of thousands of Australians are locked out by their own

A country as a fortress: tens of thousands of Australians are locked out by their own

Welcome to Borderline, season 2.

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Isabelle Roughol
๐ŸŽง Borderline
007 | The plight of stranded Australians

007 | The plight of stranded Australians

Australians abroad are stranded: 23,000 have registered their desire to come home urgently, but they can't. Ostensibly to reduce the spread of covid-19 and the burden on the country's quarantine system, the federal government has instituted flight caps that reduce international arrivals to a trickle.

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Isabelle Roughol
Immigration
Goodbye (home) office. Here's how to take your career on the road.

Goodbye (home) office. Here's how to take your career on the road.

Episode 006: Becoming a digital nomad, with Mandy Fransz.

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Isabelle Roughol
๐ŸŽง Borderline