These are some of the commentaries/op-eds/analyses/policy briefs that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) either wrote or curated/edited for the Carnegie Corporation of New York-supported ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN blogs while at Duke Islamic Studies Center (2012-2016). I edited commentary pieces by more than 110 faculty across 17 universities and educational centers, more than 40 undergrad and graduate students from eight universities, and several more by civil rights advocates and religious leaders and scholars. 

Also included are blogs/media that re-published these commentaries.

This is a selection of articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for the Duke Cancer Institute Development campaign #MyDukeCancerStory. The videos that went along with the articles were produced by DCI Development.

(NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) This collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote from 2012-2024 for the Duke Cancer Institute Blog, BreakThroughs magazine, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Department of Pathology, Duke Department of ObGyn, Duke MedAlumni News, Duke Today, ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN at Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Religion News Service/Washington Post. There are also articles here that I wrote before 2012 for The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, The Washington Diplomat, The San Diego Business Journal, Workforce Management, The Wildlife Journal, The Trinitonian and The Mirage. 


This is a collection of articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have written about politics, political movements, and political news, for ISLAMiCommentary, TIRN, Religion News Service (including in The Washington Post and other local & national newspapers), Duke Today, Workforce Management magazine, The Washington Diplomat, The San Diego Business Journal, the Institute for War & Peace Reporting 'Balkan Crisis Report', The Trinitonian and The Mirage (at Trinity University), and my personal blog.  This collection also includes some political-themed newstips, press releases, and news compilations that I wrote. 

This collection includes numerous articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for Duke Cancer Institute, some of the DCI E-Newsletters I wrote, curated, and produced, two articles I wrote for ISLAMiCommentary/Duke Islamic Studies Center, and two articles I wrote for the San Diego Business Journal. 


This collection contains news and feature articles and announcements that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for the Duke Cancer Institute Blog and examples of DCI Blog homepages.  


These are articles connected with Iran geopolitics, security, religion, and scholarship that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote or curated/edited for the ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN websites as part of the Duke Islamic Studies Center-managed Transcultural Islam Project. (2012-2016)

This is a collection of articles and projects I (Julie Poucher Harbin) worked on as a contributing journalist at National Public Radio 'All Things Considered,' the San Diego Business Journal, the Washington Diplomat, Workforce Management magazine, The Wildlife Journal, Religion News Service [and RNS subscribers: The Washington Post, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, The Huffington Post, Deseret News, National Catholic Reporter, and Sojourners], ONASA, The Moscow Tribune, and the Trinity University-based The Trinitonian and The Mirage. This collection also includes articles I wrote for Duke Cancer Institute that were featured by oncology trades (The Cancer Letter's Cancer History Project and the ASCO Post) and articles that I wrote for ISLAMiCommentary that were mirrored by the Informed Comment blog, World Religion News, and The Muslim Observer. 

Also included in this collection are descriptions of my early TV broadcasting and film production roles. 

**NOTE: The articles I wrote for Duke Cancer Institute, Duke-affiliated magazines, and the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN blogs — while most are journalistic in nature — are filed here: https://authory.com/JuliePoucherHarbin/co/Writing-at-Duke

BreakThroughs is a magazine published by Duke Cancer Institute Development. I (Julie Poucher Harbin) contributed several pieces to BreakThroughs, which was edited by Angela Spivey.

This collection primarily includes articles and press releases I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for Duke Today (at Duke University)  and articles I wrote and/or curated and edited for the Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded Transcultural Islam Project websites — ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN. The latter was a project I managed at the Duke University Islamic Studies Center (2012-2016). Several were mirrored on Professor Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog. ALSO, this collection includes some features I wrote for Religion News Service (2015-2016), many of which were carried by The Washington Post, a few articles I wrote for Duke Cancer Institute (2016-2024), and all the articles I wrote for International Medical Corps (2006-2007) .


This is a collection of articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for Religion News Service, which were featured in The Washington Post.

I (Julie Poucher Harbin) was responsible for production and distribution of the public-facing DCI E-News (Mailchimp, Emma) from Nov. 2019 to Mar. 2024. (Between July 2016 and Nov. 2019, I contributed content to and proofread E-news). Here are some Emma platform examples.

This collection primarily includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote and/or curated and edited for the Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded Transcultural Islam Project websites — ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN. The latter was a project I managed at the Duke University Islamic Studies Center (2012-2016). Some were mirrored on Professor Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog. The collection also includes a series of features I wrote for the San Diego Business Journal (2004-2005) and a feature I wrote for Workforce Management magazine (2005). 

While based in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005, I (Julie Poucher Harbin) conducted in-depth research and authored a long-form investigative piece for Workforce Management magazine covering a U.S. police training mission in Afghanistan operated by American security contractor DynCorp, and supplemented the article with photos. This article (“Police Advisors in Afghanistan Take Aim at Corruption, Poor Public Perception") 

CITATIONS: This piece was cited in US Army Strategic Studies Institute October 2007 Report ‘Overcoming the Obstacles to Establishing a Democratic State in Afghanistan’

Included in this collection are many of the 350+ articles (commentaries, news pieces, Q & As)
that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) curated, proofread, and copyedited  for the ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN blogs. These two websites, with their individual blogs, were the online homes of the Carnegie Corporation of New York-supported Transcultural Islam Project — a multi-year initiative (2012-2016) led by the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC) at Duke University in collaboration with the UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and initially the Oxford (University) Centre for Islamic Studies. I was chief and sole web content manager/managing editor for both of these sites and sole editor of the articles published on the sites. This included pieces written by more than 110 faculty across 17 universities and educational centers, 40 undergrad and graduate students from eight universities, and dozens of articles by think-tank analysts, activists, civil rights advocates, and journalists. The websites/blogs/articles are currently publicly accessible via the Wayback Machine. [ISLAMiCommentary: A Forum for Public Scholarship) : https://web.archive.org/web/20170213210533/https://islamicommentary.org/]   
[TIRN (Transcultural Islam Research Network):  A Scholars Forum https://web.archive.org/web/20170201140736/https://tirnscholars.org]

NOTE: I have also included a couple of articles I edited for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting 'Afghan Recovery Report.'

This collection includes an article I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote about a photo exhibit (by Afghan artist Zalmai) on the trafficking of Afghan migrants through Greece as well as another article I wrote about an event I facilitated for Duke University students on an Afghan teen's rough journey from his country to the UK in the 2000s as a refugee (immortalized in his book "The Lightless Sky"). This collection also includes two articles I wrote for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting 'Balkan Crisis Report' about  women being trafficked through the Balkans for sex. 

I (Julie Poucher Harbin) worked as a contributing correspondent for Religion News Service from May 2015-July 2016 while still employed by the Duke Islamic Studies Center. I wrote eight articles on U.S. Muslim topics for the RNS website, most of which were cross-posted by prominent outlets such as The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Deseret News, and other RNS subscribers. Two articles were part of a Google.org grant-funded series aimed at promoting religious tolerance and combating online hate speech. My article ‘Hollywood Reworks Muslim Stereotypes’ was cited in the book ‘Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation’ (Syracuse University Press, 2020) and in the CQ Press article ‘Diversity in Hollywood: Are women and minorities treated fairly?’

The ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN websites (with their individual blogs) were the online homes of the Carnegie Corporation of New York-supported Transcultural Islam Project — a multi-year initiative (2012-2016) led by the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC) at Duke University in collaboration with the UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and initially the Oxford (University) Centre for Islamic Studies. From January 2012-July 2016 I (Julie Poucher Harbin) was chief and sole web content manager/managing editor for both of these sites, sole writer & editor of landing page content, chief writer, and sole editor of the articles published on the sites. I also served as a communications & media relations specialist for both the project and DISC, worked as an associate project manager for the project, and led an annual op-ed writing seminar class for Duke and UNC grad students enrolled in the joint Duke-UNC Middle East Graduate Practicum course. For the latter, I edited and workshopped student pieces for publication on the ISLAMiCommentary Blog and with other media outlets (2013-2016). The sites were archived by the university in July 2016). The websites/blogs/articles are currently publicly accessible via the Wayback Machine. [ISLAMiCommentary: A Forum for Public Scholarship) : https://web.archive.org/web/20170213210533/https://islamicommentary.org/]   
[TIRN (Transcultural Islam Research Network):  A Scholars Forum https://web.archive.org/web/20170201140736/https://tirnscholars.org]

Included in this collection below are many of the 350+ articles (commentaries, news pieces, news compilations, Q & As) that I curated/edited and 150+ that I wrote or co-wrote. There are also links in this collection to original articles and press releases that I contributed to Duke University news (Duke Today) during this time, as well as links to websites inside and outside Duke that either mirrored, cited, or recognized ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN content. This collection also includes screenshots of project social media accounts & analytics AND screenshots of the original ISLAMiCommentary, TIRN, DISC, and UNC Chapel Hill Carolina Center for the Middle East & Muslim Civilization webpages and articles.

This collection includes a broad swath of articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote and/or edited and curated that touch on the experiences of immigrant, refugee, and minority communities around the world; including for Religion News Service and The Washington Post (2015-16), Duke Today (2012-2016), and ISLAMiCommentary (a Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded Transcultural Islam Project website; 2012-2016). This collection also includes articles I wrote for The Washington Diplomat (2011) and The San Diego Business Journal (2005) and a few pieces I researched for National Public Radio's "Changing Face of America" series in 2000.


This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for The Washington Diplomat and the paper's Diplomatic Pouch e-newsletter in 2011. Most have been accessed via The Wayback Machine. As a reporter, I covered a range of international gatherings in DC, mingling with foreign ambassadors and U.S. Senators and reporting on the global water crisis, 50 years of the Peace Corps, the capitol’s first LEED-certified embassy (Finland), a meet-and-greet at the Kazakhstan Embassy with the oil-rich country’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade, a visit by the Prince of Sweden, and other events. As assistant editor, I proofread articles and photo captions and edited, updated, and standardized the website’s digital foreign embassy directory.

This collection includes feature articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote from 2012-2024 for the Duke Cancer Institute Blog, BreakThroughs magazine, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Department of Pathology, Duke Department of ObGyn, Duke MedAlumni News, Duke Today, and ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN at Duke Islamic Studies Center.


This collection features articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) edited or wrote for the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based ISLAMiCommentary blog on cultures and communities around the world; posts I wrote for my personal travel blog; articles I wrote for Duke Cancer Institute about marginalized and under-represented communities in the U.S. healthcare system and community health challenges abroad; select articles I wrote for The Washington Diplomat on community concerns overseas; and articles I wrote for the San Diego Business Journal about immigrants and the Mexican maquiladora culture; articles I wrote or edited for IWPR addressing community issues in Afghanistan and Bosnia; select articles I wrote for Religion News Service on U.S. Muslim communities (mirrored in many other publications, inc. The Washington Post); and an article I wrote for The Trinitonian. 

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO ‘ALL THINGS CONSIDERED’ | EDITORIAL ASSISTANT & RESEARCHER (STAFF ROLE) |
WASHINGTON, DC | FEBRUARY 2000 – JULY 2000 | Under the direction of producer Art Silverman, I  (Julie Poucher Harbin) I conducted extensive research, proposed story ideas, and followed through with production assistance for the show’s Pew Charitable Trusts-funded Changing Face of America radio series. This included compiling info sheets and arranging interviews for the correspondents’ pieces — Margot Adler in Hinesburg, Vermont, John Burnett in Austin, Texas,  John McChesney in rural Missouri, Linda Wertheimer in Broward County, Florida, and Vertamae Grosvenor in the South Carolina Sea Islands (whom I also supported in the field) — 
— exploring the impact of, and community responses to, technological advances, corporate expansion, and suburban sprawl at the dawn of the new Millenium.

Below are summaries of radio pieces appearing on various versions of the NPR website. Unfortunately, the links to the audio appear to be broken.

This collection includes journalistic articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote and co-wrote for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting 'Balkan Crisis Report' and edited for IWPR's 'Afghan Recovery Report;' wrote for International Medical Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and The World Bank; and edited for the Washington, DC-based Institute for Social Policy and Understanding think-tank as part of a Duke Islamic Studies Center-associated project.

The following collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) edited — while I was the editor of ISLAMiCommentary (associated with the Transcultural Islam Project at Duke Islamic Studies Center) — in collaboration with Institute for Social Policy and Understanding editors. These topics were conceived of by ISLAMiCommentary and the ISPU. 


This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting 'Balkan Crisis Report' as a reporter & journalism adviser, and articles I edited as a journalism coach & editor for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting 'Afghan Recovery Report' (*marked as 'edited'). Citations are also included.

IWPR 'BALKAN CRISIS REPORT' | SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; ZAGREB, CROATIA; BELGRADE, SERBIA; VIENNA, AUSTRIA | JANUARY 2001 – APRIL 2003 | Collaborated with local & regional reporters in The Balkans on select investigative pieces — enhancing post-civil-war journalistic capacity in the region — and did solo field reporting. Covered post-civil-war politics (women and religious leaders in the 2002 parliamentary elections), ethno-religious tensions (inc. a multi-ethnic football team, a diverse youth group in a tourist town, foreign-funded mosques), social issues (inc. drug addiction, domestic violence, brain drain), human trafficking, UN governance, European media aid & development, and Sarajevo's Olympics bid. Also, attended news briefings in Sarajevo by NATO-SFOR, the OSCE, UNHCR, and OHR. Two articles were cross-published ("The Fall of OBN" by a Bosnian newsmagazine and "Bosnia: UN Handover Causes Concern" by the UN’s ReliefWeb outlet) and three were cited ("Multi-ethnic Football Kicks Off" by The Guardian, "German Media Dominates the Balkans" by the OSCE, and "Thousands of Women Lured into Bosnia Brothels" by the International Crisis Group)

'AFGHAN RECOVERY REPORT' | KABUL, AFGHANISTAN | JULY 2004 – JANUARY 2005 |  I mentored Afghan trainee journalists on best-practices for sourcing, how to construct a workable story plan, and tips on UK/US-style article structure and tone, then edited their articles, which covered critical post-conflict issues such as sanitation and disease, divorce, women’s rights, mental health, refugee concerns, and soldier demobilization.
NOTABLY:  I successfully persuaded a staff of mainly male journalists with little journalism experience, limited English language skills, and no previous experience with a female manager, to learn and embrace an American reporting style that included unbiased, multi-dimensional and interactive reporting.  And, I convinced a reporter to not only analyze a report about the waste management system in Kabul and conduct the appropriate interviews, but to travel for a day on a Kabul garbage truck to gain first-hand  knowledge to report his story— journalism atypical of Afghanistan.

This collection includes Q & As I (Julie Poucher Harbin) conducted for Duke Cancer Institute and for ISLAMiCommentary (a Duke Islamic Studies Center Transcultural Islam Project website).

This collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for Duke Cancer Institute that touch on faculty research in Population Health Sciences (a department with the Duke University School of Medicine) in the context of cancer. 


I (Julie Poucher Harbin) worked as a contracted communications officer, writer, and photographer for the International Medical Corps Southern Lebanon Field Office in Tyre, Lebanon from December 2006-April 2007. In this role, I documented U.S. government-supported disaster relief and assistance programs in southern Lebanon following the July 2006 conflict with Israel; writing blog articles and taking photos of IMC's medical, psychosocial, winterization, and water-sanitation programs. I also facilitated local government & media coverage of IMC activities and wrote an article for the Tyre Municipality website, contributing to a broader public understanding of U.S. humanitarian aid efforts in the region. 

Here are some of those articles in various formats.

This collection includes examples of video interviews I (Julie Poucher Harbin) conducted and videos I co-produced for the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based Transcultural Islam Project ISLAMiCommentary blog. Most of these videos were part of the ISLAMiCommentary Field Reports series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdIeNHvfGHNRxWVmEUbZv2S-uJu5YXmu) that I co-produced at the Duke John Hope Franklin Center with the Center's communications director and video editor/producer Catherine Angst Driver. (For some of these videos I was also the interviewer off camera). This collection also includes articles I wrote that feature the video interviews that I conducted.

This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote either exclusively about oncology research or touching on oncology research for the Duke Cancer Institute Blog, the Duke University School of Medicine website and DukeMed Alumni News, Breakthroughs magazine, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology annual magazine and website, and Duke Pathology. I also included samples of some of my DCI E-newsletters.


This collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for the Duke University School of Medicine website, including the Magnify project, and Translating Duke Health initiative, and the print and online editions of DukeMed Alumni News.

Within these articles and webpages are some examples of photos and videos I (Julie Poucher Harbin) captured throughout my career. Note that photos without a photo credit, unless otherwise specified, were not taken by me. 

The collection includes examples of video interviews I (Julie Poucher Harbin) personally conducted and video I filmed for Duke Cancer Institute as well as video interviews I conducted and videos I co-produced for the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based Transcultural Islam Project ISLAMiCommentary blog. While at the Duke Islamic Studies Center I co-produced the ISLAMiCommentary Field Reports series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdIeNHvfGHNRxWVmEUbZv2S-uJu5YXmu) with the Duke John Hope Franklin Center communications director and video editor/producer Catherine Angst Driver. (For some of these videos I was also the interviewer off camera). 

This collection also includes articles I wrote that feature the video interviews that I produced and conducted.

Included as well are some notes about my video production roles at NBC News Moscow Bureau, NBC News Washington Bureau, and WJLA-TV Ch. 7.

This is a collection of some articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have written for Duke Cancer Institute about faculty research in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology —  including precision cancer medicine research (genetic and genomic) and patients impacted by this research. 


"Created to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Cancer History Project is a free historical resource that places—in perpetuity—a vast, expertly curated collection of primary sources and authoritative interpretations within easy reach of researchers, medical professionals, students, policy-makers, and patients. The CHP is a new way of preserving history: collaboratively curated by the institutions and people who shaped it. The Project draws on the expertise of an editorial board of physicians, scientists, advocates, and communicators and is operated by The Cancer Letter, the longest-running oncology news publication." I (Julie Poucher Harbin) was responsible for setting up the portal and uploading most of the Duke Cancer Institute content to the portal. 


My (Julie Poucher Harbin) active communications role at the Duke Islamic Studies Center — which was supported, in part,  by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of the Transcultural Islam Project —  included writing press releases and newstips for Duke Today/Duke Central Communications Team distribution and attending weekly university-wide rapid response meetings. I also wrote a few 'press releases'  for Duke Cancer Institute, which were not distributed directly to the press, but shared broadly on social media and with our extra-institutional partners (trades, professional  associations, other universities), various Duke departments and the Duke community, and the Duke 100 website calendar (one of these).

This collection contains feature articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote about clinical practice and/or clinical trials  — not all focused on particular patient stories— for Duke Cancer Institute (blog and e-news), Duke ObGyn, Duke MedAlumni News, Breakthroughs magazine, and Duke Clinical Practice Today. 


This is a collection of articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote about health, wellness, and clinical care while atDuke Cancer Institute, the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, and ISLAMiCommentary (part of the Duke Islamic Studies-based Transcultural Islam Project).

This is a collection of articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote and edited/curated about business, including small businesses, green businesses, big businesses, manufacturing, the lumber industry, maquiladoras in Mexico, business studies in higher education, international trade, international business, and world economics. This includes my writing for the San Diego Business Journal, Workforce Management magazine, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, and The World Bank, and my writing and editing for the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based ISLAMiCommentary Blog. 

This is a collection of articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have written or curated/edited about green business, recycling, water policy & practice, agriculture, climate change & weather, wildfires, wildlife, environmental chemicals & contamination, and earth studies.

SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL | STAFF REPORTER & COLUMNIST, PHOTOGRAPHER | SAN DIEGO, CA | SEPTEMBER 2003 – JUNE 2004 | I (Julie Poucher Harbin) covered water issues (inc. desalination & reclamation), international trade (inc. biotech and automaker outsourcing and the Mexican maquiladora industry), and small business (including profiles and columns), among other topics. I wrote award-winning features about recycling, urban development, and the Cedar Fire (with extended coverage of wildfire loss, recovery, and reconstruction)

• First Place-Breaking News for ‘A Fiery Week for San Diego’ 
• Third place-political/ government for ‘San Diego’s Trash a Gold Mine for Recyclers’ by the San Diego Press Club 
• Best Investigative/Enterprise Story or Series for ‘Marching to a New Beat’ (inc. ‘Oceanside Slowly Sheds Its Image as a Military Town’ and ‘Oceanside’s Eastern Edge Sees Major Growth’) by the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL | FREELANCE REPORTER & PHOTOGRAPHER | KABUL, AFGHANISTAN & SAN DIEGO, CA | AUGUST 2004 – JANUARY 2006 |  I wrote a personal reflections piece about life in Kabul, and covered three Cali entrepreneurs’ stake in rebuilding efforts, the business connections between San Diego and Afghanistan, and U.S. investment opportunities. I also tracked trends in San Diego commercial real estate (inc. foreign investment, job growth, demand for property management firms), and, at a time of water scarcity, reported on the agricultural outlook (inc. avocado farming).

This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have written about faculty, clinicians, executives, and staff and their work that rise to the level of a "profile piece" — either within the context of spotlighted awards, promotions, and research, or upon retirement or death. These articles were written for Duke Cancer Institute, DukeMed Alumni News, and the Duke University School of Medicine.

This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN blogs covering human rights issues. This collection draws from select articles in the Gender & Sexuality collection, the 'Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Profiling' collection, the 'Refugees, Minorities, and Immigrant Culture' section, and other articles.  

This collection includes an article I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for The World Bank's internal newsletter. 


This collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) either wrote or curated/edited about art, music, poetry, fiction/literature, comics, film, and culture — mostly while I was with the Duke Islamic Studies Center. 


This collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote or
 curated/edited involving gender identity, sexuality, sexually-transmitted diseases, gender empowerment, gender discrimination, women's rights, and human trafficking. 


This collection includes examples of articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote while working at Duke Cancer Institute, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Religion News Service/The Washington Post, and The Washington Diplomat, as regards DEI/EDI programs, initiatives, and events, and articles covering discrimination, implicit bias, profiling, disparities research, and outreach to underserved and marginalized communities.


This collection features 'By the Book' columns/Q & As that were co-written and edited by Prof. Joseph Preville and I (Julie Poucher Harbin) for the ISLAMiCommentary Blog (part of the Carnegie-supported Transcultural Islam Project at Duke Islamic Studies Center)— several of which were mirrored by other publications. The collection also includes some book Q & As that I conducted and/or edited without Prof. Preville.

This collection includes articles and press releases that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have edited/curated or written on religion-related topics and religion news for Duke Cancer Institute (written), Religion News Service (writing also includes RNS subscribers such as The Washington Post  the Informed Comment Blog, the National Catholic Reporter, World Religion News, and other publications), the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN blogs (written & edited),  and Duke Today (written). 

This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) co-wrote for ISLAMiCommentary that were mirrored by the World Religion News website. 


These are articles were written for the ISLAMiCommentary website/blog by undergraduate, graduate students, MA students, and PhD students from Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, University of California Irvine, New York University, Temple University, Columbia University, and St Antony’s College at Oxford University, which I (Julie Poucher Harbin) curated and edited. I mentored and guided these students in their write-ups of academic events, opinion pieces, and first-person narratives (some originating from their study abroad blogs). ISLAMiCommentary was part of the Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded Transcultural Islam Project based at the Duke Islamic Studies Center. 
 

Politics, mental & physical health, activism, students/education, drugs, and more -- articles about youth and articles by youth/students that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have curated/edited or written while at Duke University and Health System, International Medical Corps, the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, National Public Radio (researched), The Moscow Tribune, The Trinitonian, and The Mirage.


The "Informed Comment" blog — authored by University of Michigan Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History Juan Cole — often mirrored my ISLAMiCommentary posts, with permission.

Here is a selection of Duke Cancer Institute blog posts that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote encompassing community fundraising  events (previews & wrap-ups), the patients and supporters who attended them, and other community outreach initiatives.

This is a collection of science and healthcare articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have written about cancer precision and the work of the Duke Cancer Institute Molecular Tumor Board in the context of cancer.  

This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote about scientific events while employed as a writer at Duke Cancer Institute. [Note that event preview articles and press releases are marked with 'Event.' The remaining are event wrap-ups.] 


This collection includes public/community event preview articles and press releases (marked 'EVENT') that I wrote and wrap-ups that I wrote or edited while at Duke Cancer Institute and Duke Islamic Studies Center 
(ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN). 


This collection includes some articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) have written for Duke Cancer Institute that touch on epidemiology research and treatment interventions in the context of oncology.

This collection features articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for the Duke Cancer Institute blog, the Duke Islamic Studies Center's ISLAMiCommentary website, the Washington Diplomat, the Institute for War & Peace Reporting's Balkan Crisis Report, The San Diego Business Journal, The Moscow Tribune, and The Trinitonian, and selections from Julie's personal travel/parenting blog. 


This collection includes academic event preview articles and press releases (marked 'EVENT') that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote and event wrap-ups that I wrote for Duke Cancer Institute  (blog and e-news) and for ISLAMiCommentary (website associated with the Transcultural Islam Project at Duke Islamic Studies Center).


This collection includes articles, including commentaries and feature stories, that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote or edited for the Duke Islamic Studies Center-based ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN blogs and websites connected with political science, public policy, and foreign policy. Featuring prominently here are public policy, political science, foreign policy, religion, sociology, history, and anthropology faculty from Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill, Princeton University, and other universities, as well as thought leaders from the U.S. Government, the Public Religion Research Institute, the Zogby polling company, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Center for American Progress, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and others. The collection also includes related press releases and 'newstips' I wrote that were distributed by the Duke University Communications office to media. I've also included public policy-related articles that I wrote for Religion News Service (mirrored by RNS subscribers including the Washington Post and others) and for Duke Cancer Institute.

From February 1993 through March 1994 I (Julie Poucher) was a staff reporter and crime columnist for English-language news weekly "The Moscow Tribune," published by Anthony Louis (now deceased) in Moscow, Russia. I covered socioeconomic & political change, security, and barrier-breaking cultural moments in post-Soviet Russia — from a communist and nationalist coup, protests in the streets, ‘New Russia’ party politics, and state separation moves in the Baltics and Russian Far East, to U.S. & Japan foreign aid, the Kremlin’s ecological agenda, and organized crime, to policing in the capitol, the art scene, and the arrival of 'Estée Lauder', a second McDonalds, Salt-N-Pepa, Michael Jackson, and much more. 
MORE DETAIL: 
• I covered the October 1993 coup, including the role of prominent communist and nationalist figures in that coup and Russia’s first free parliamentary elections (My election reporting was cited in the East European Quarterly/Summer 1996 piece ‘The Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1993: A Quasi-Historical Interpretation in Light of the 1995 Elections')
• I interviewed Russian Pres. Yeltsin's Chief Ecology Advisor Alexei Yablokov at the Kremlin about national environmental priorities 
• I wrote a weekly crime column, which was widely read by the expatriate community and referenced in U.S. Embassy security briefings
•  I wrote a series of articles from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East on organized crime, debates over Russia separation, and Japanese Red Cross medical aid to orphans, maternity hospitals, and mothers in prison with their babies
• I reported on the first post-Soviet rock concerts featuring U.S. musicians, including Salt-N-Pepa (whom I interviewed in St. Petersburg) and Michael Jackson (whom I didn't interview, but about whom I did speak with Russian special forces regarding what to expect vis a vis his popularity)
•  I collaborated with local journalists (non-native English speakers) to enhance storytelling about the new arts scene in Russia, focusing on Moscow and St. Petersburg
 
Since this was "pre-internet" all of my clips are newspaper clips, which I am in the process of uploading to this collection. [I left The Moscow Tribune in March 1994 to join the NBC News Moscow bureau as an assignment editor and field producer, where I stayed until November 1995]

These are news and event announcements that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote and disseminated — while I worked at Duke Cancer Institute —in coordination with major oncology nonprofits, academic and clinical associations, Pharma companies, government agencies, scientific journals and trades, and other university-based cancer centers.

This collection primarily includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) I wrote and/or curated and edited for the Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded Transcultural Islam Project websites — ISLAMiCommentary & TIRN. The latter was a project I managed at the Duke University Islamic Studies Center (2012-2016). Some of the articles were mirrored on Professor Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog. The main countries covered in this region included China, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, India, and Asia more broadly. (Pakistan & Afghanistan are in a separate collection in my portfolio) 

This collection includes articles & press releases I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote for ISLAMiCommentary and Duke Today connected to the international workshop/conference 'Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa: Their History, Mission and Role in Regional Development' held at Duke in October 2013 and co-sponsored by  Duke Islamic Studies Center and ISLAMiCommentary among others. 

This Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Annual Conference — “The Art (s) of Revolution” — featured artists from Baghdad, Libya, Turkey, Qatar, and Bahrain. [I (Julie Poucher Harbin) either wrote or curated/edited all the articles in this collection for ISLAMiCommentary, part of the Transcultural Islam Project at Duke Islamic Studies Center]

This collection includes articles I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote about Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk for ISLAMiCommentary, including a press release and wrap story on Pamuk's visit to Duke in 2015 and an article about the 2013 release of a book on Pamuk by Duke professor Erdağ Göknar titled 'Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel.'  (Göknar is well known for his 2001 translation (into English) of Pamuk's Nobel Prize winning novel 'My Name is Red.') Also included in this collection is a piece I curated/edited written by 
Annabel Jane Wharton about Pamuk's Museum of Innocence in Istanbul)

A national conference on "The Legacy of Malcolm X: Afro-American Visionary, Muslim Activist" was held at Duke on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Supported, in part, by the Transcultural Islam Project (managed by the Duke Islamic Studies Center), the conference was co-organized by Duke Islamic Studies Center director Omid Safi, UNC-Chapel Hill Islamic Studies professor Juliane Hammer, and African & African American Studies professor and host of 'Left of Black' Mark Anthony Neal. Here are some of the writeups and videos that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) was involved with. 

This collection includes a writeup on the original release of the WRAL documentary 'Faith, Fear & Freedom' about North Carolina's growing Muslim population (featuring Duke Islamic Studies Center faculty), as well as a press release and wrap article on an ISLAMiCommentary event that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) conceptualized, organized, and covered, featuring a public screening of the documentary + panel discussion.

This collection includes articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote or curated/edited involving Europe and Canada. 


Here are my (Julie Poucher Harbin) contributions/reporting to the Trinity University school newspaper (The Trinitonian) and yearbook (The Mirage) while I was a student there from 1988 to 1992. For The Trinitonian I covered campus lectures on plate tectonics, overpopulation, globalization, and the concept of evil; campus politics & tech; and city events, including the rodeo (inc. cowboy tropes) and the Grand Prix. I wrote the opening nine pages of the 1990-91 yearbook 'The Mirage,' which covered the Gulf War and its impact on campus, including opinion surveys, peace protests on campus and the state capitol, and the war’s effect on the Muslim community.

These are Africa-centric articles that I (Julie Poucher Harbin) wrote or curated/edited for the ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN websites, which were affiliated with the Duke Islamic Studies Center-managed Transcultural Islam Project.

This collection includes awards, citations, and mirroring of my (Julie Poucher Harbin) written work and reporting for Religion News Service, ISLAMiCommentary, IWPR Balkan Crisis Report, and San Diego Business Journal; citations and mirroring of my edited work for ISLAMiCommentary; and special awards bestowed for my reporting. This also includes lists of team members that include my name, including in newspaper mastheads and news agency webpages (The Moscow Tribune, Religion News Service, Sojourners), the Congressional Record (NBC news staff list), and the Duke University School of Medicine website, and a list of my articles on the Duke Health Referring Physicians website.

Mara Leichtman's latest book is "Shi‘i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal." Senegal is predominantly Sunni Muslim. While Shi‘i Muslims make up only a small minority, the number is growing.

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