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ADRIENNE ARSENAULT

Reports from abroad

Zimbabwe diary
March 31, 2008
The desperate life of the London paparazzi
March 7, 2008
Dim view of Amsterdam red light district
December 17, 2007
Cable news resumes in Pakistan
November 8, 2007
Sweden offers safe haven to Iraqi refugees
September 14, 2007
The Iraq war and the electronic trenches
June 11, 2007
Football's Big Flub
March 6, 2007
Britain's 'footprint' fetish
February 2, 2007
On the vagaries of a Second Life
November 21, 2006
Fighting for the never born
March 23, 2006
Hothouse politics in the Gaza Strip
November 25, 2005
Gay Pride: an otherworldly night in Jerusalem
June 21, 2004
Remember the Sabbath day
July 8, 2003

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ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

Biography

Adrienne Arsenault is CBC-TV's senior European correspondent, based in London, a position she took up in the fall of 2006 after having spent the previous three years in Jerusalem. From 2003 to 2006, Arsenault was the CBC's Middle East bureau chief covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and regional politics. Before that she was the Washington correspondent.

Arsenault joined CBC in 1991 as an editorial assistant and has worked on a wide variety of assignments. She was named the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's journalist of the year for 2005. She was also nominated for three Gemini Awards and has won awards from the American Society of Professional Journalists, the Radio and Television News Directors Association, and the New York and Columbus festivals.

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