Caryle Murphy

Caryle Murphy is an American journalist. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize.

Murphy has worked in America as a reporter for The Washington Post and for The Christian Science Monitor.^[1] She has worked for the GlobalPost and The National while in Saudi Arabia. As a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, she reported in the following regions: South Africa (following the Soweto uprising and Steve Biko slaying by the police); Cairo as bureau chief, in charge of Arab world coverage; and Kuwait during border crossing and subsequent Emirate occupation by Iraqi forces. She was part of team covering the Gulf War from Southern Arabia, and she was a reporter for three months during a tour of duty in Baghdad.^[2]

In terms of her work in America, she is on top of coverage in the following areas: American immigration policy, American federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and religion.

She has also been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Murphy is probably best known for her coverage of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and the Gulf War (1990–91) that ensued.^[3]

Murphy was the 1994–1995 Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.^[4] In 2002, in the Washington Post's Book World she was described by Emran Qureshi, as having engaged in "careful reporting and cogent analysis [that] present[ed] readers with an indispensable opportunity to understand how the variegated strands of Islam – tolerant reformist traditions as well as militant anti-Western ones – have taken root in the Arab world's most vital civilization."

Murphy has written two books: Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience, and A Kingdom's Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of its Twentysomethings (illustrated by Kathy Buttefield).^[5][6]

Murphy has received many awards including:

• The George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting (1990)^[5]
• The Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (1990)
• Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1991)^[5][7]
• Edward Weintal Diplomatic Reporting Prize (1991)
• The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (1994)
• Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion (2011)

Murphy grew up in Massachusetts. She graduated Trinity University in Washington, D.C., and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

• Appearances on C-SPAN