Author: Margot Kiser
I am a Kenya-based correspondent, focusing on conflict in East Africa. I have contributed to Newsweek, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, among others.
Follow me on Twitter: @margotkiser
Best long read ByLiner 2011 for my Newsweek feature, 'Pirates in Paradise' http://byliner.com/margot-kiser/stories
http://www.newsweek.com/authors/margot-kiser
London 2014
Random photos taken in London mostly via Instagram: MargotKiser Follow me on Twitter:@MargotKiser
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Militants Execute Non-Musims at Kenyan World Cup Watch
http://www.thedailybeast.com/etc/clientlibs/dailybeast2/img/globalnav-logo.png WORLD06. 16. 14 MILITANTS ‘EXECUTED NON-MUSLIMS’ AT KENYAN WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY by Margot Kiser A brutal attack on a crowd of World Cup watchers at a hotel in northern Kenya has reportedly left at least 48 people dead. One of the survivors told The Daily Beast that the assailants were killing non-Muslims execution-style. […]
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Tweeting to Al Shabaab
…from the fifth floor at Harvey Nichs. @HSMPress_: @MargotKiser this was the work of a homegrown Alshabab inspired group. They’re the stage where Alshabab was in prolly 2003 or 2004.
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New York City
Somewhere on Bowery St. She didn’t seem the least bit concerned about anything or anyone. The story of gentrification Same story more or less. Not sure what this is supposed to mean….’Supermarket of the Apes’? Bye, bye for now, Manhattan. Lucky shot of Central Park, an angle of the city thanks to my […]
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The Journalist and the Jihadist – conversations with an Al-Shabaab recruitor
The Journalist and the Jihadist March 31, 2014 – On a flight from Dubai to Casablanca the 1956 Hitchcock film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, had been playing on the Emirate’s In-flight entertainment. In the film Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day play a young American couple who get caught up in political intrigue […]
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Marooned in Morocco
MARRAKECH, Morocco – Didn’t see much of Marrakech my first week there. Didn’t even glimpse the friends I traveled from Nairobi to meet. Nor had I spent more than fifteen minutes in the swanky hotel room before receiving word that the main subject of a story I was working on – a Muslim […]
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Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers | The Daily Beast
Religious leaders say Kenyan security forces are targeting them unfairly for persecution if not indeed for summary execution, but the police argue they have clear intelligence linking many of the local preachers to Somali terrorists.
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Marrakech Express
Firstly, a note to apologize for long absence. Some say post Westgate xenophobia has lessened. Not true if you’re a journalist in Kenya. The things I want to write about I feel I cannot. Not if I consider Kenya my home. So this is what journalistic oppression feels like. Casablanca is a sprawling, dirty, seaside […]
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Shifting shapes of al-Shabab
Mombasa Mosque story MOMBASA – Husni Mburak, X years old, strides into the Driftwood club, one of the last young clean cut Swahili of Yemeni descent. once a sleepy port town is now a hectic spared of skyscrapers but now synonymous with drugs and but spared the excesses of skyscrapers. It is laid back representing […]
