Before joining the Globe as its Kabul correspondent, she was posted in Istanbul, Baghdad and Cairo by The New York Times and in Cairo and Moscow by Newsday. Her reporting has been honoured with prizes from, among others, the Overseas Press Club and Investigative Reporters and Editors in the United States. , and she was awarded a Bagehot Fellowship and American Political Science Association. She has also taught global reporting and immigration reporting at the graduate school of journalism of the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po).