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Karen Bartlett is a journalist and film maker based in London.

Karen writes for The Times, The Sunday Times,The Guardian and WIRED.She now writes on technology for Republic. Her most recent work includes features from Kenya, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In broadcast Karen has made documentaries for the BBC World Service, and directed and produced a series on the economic meltdown for the Open University.
Momma D: Dionne Warwick, the Grande Dame of Divas

She learnt her stagecraft from Marlene Dietrich; 50 years on, she’s mentor to Whitney Houston and P. Diddy Dionne Warwick opens up her arms in a stage bow: “I’m looking pretty good, don’t you think,” she says. The singer seems slightly surprised to be turning 70, and, with pearly white teeth a...
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The Times - Arts
‘If they gave me a house, I’d take it tomorrow’

All I want is to die under this mountain.” Noor Ebrahim, a slightly-built former messenger for Reader’s Digest, has returned to the area where he grew up. Now retired, he likes to remember the old days; he can point out his school — “it was tough” — the mosque where his family prayed and the spot...
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The Times - World
It’s murder on your mobile, says The Killing’s Sarah Lund

Hit crime drama The Killing is back for a second series, and Karen Bartlett talks mobile phone forensics with actress Sofie Gråbøl Detective Sarah Lund is a Luddite. The loner heroine of Denmark’s hit crime drama The Killing is as much of a 70s relic as her Faroe sweaters: She makes notes by h...
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Technology
How one man gave Congo’s women hope

Life is hell for women caught up in the conflict in the Congo. But one remarkable doctor helps survivors to build a future Why are the lives of African women worthless? It’s a question that Denis Mukwege asks every day that he works with the raped and mutilated women of the Democratic Republic...
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The Times - World
India's Barefoot Revolution

What would it be like if women ran the world? In some parts of India, it’s already happening If all revolutions begin in unlikely locations, few could be as unpromising as Borda. It’s a poor village in the poorest district of one of the poorest states in India. Only the blasting from a nearby ...
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The Times - World
A Race Apart: the beauty queens of the apartheid era

The Miss World finalists are now at the World Cup, but the women who represented South Africa in its past have divided memories So far the game has not been beautiful for the World Cup’s “33rd official team”. They have gone largely unnoticed in South Africa’s impressive new stadiums, despite d...
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The Times - World
Maki Mandela: “As Nelson's child, I can say I am proud of him”

In the week that London marks the statesman's 90th birthday, his daughter reveals how she overcame her resentment that he was a father to the world, but not to her Nelson Mandela arrives in London today for what is likely to be his last major public appearance; a 90th birthday charity concert ...
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The Times - World
The Vagina Monologues turns ten

Eve Ensler transformed the New Orleans Superdome into ‘Superlove' for a celebrity-studded event to campaign against violence towards women Few people know that New Orleans is the vagina of America. Few would suggest it. “It is fertile. It's a delta. And everyone wants to party there,” explains...
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The Times - Arts
A Rogueish Queen

On a cold winter's morning in Washington, crowds fill the mall to witness the inauguration of a young President. The first Democrat to be elected for 16 years, he is keen to stake out what it means to be an American in the closing decade of the 20th century. The Presidential party has wound its...
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The Newcastle Journal
Kenyan women united in freedom and football

In a society where girls are punished for refusing sex and HIV is endemic, football has become an educational tool The Ukunda Queens collected their trophy in the dark. It had been a great afternoon of football, with 22 young women from the rural province of Kwale in Kenya slugging it out on a...
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The Times - World
The No 1 Muslim Ladies' Cycling Club

Pull your brakes. Put your foot under. No, under. Set the pedal. Now release the brakes...” Most people remember learning to ride a bike. It is easier when you are 5 and not wearing a full hijab. It is also easier when small boys are not whizzing past on mini-BMXs laughing at you as their parents...
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The Times - UK
Hard to swallow: race-based medicine

The helicopter hovers over the ledge and then runs for several minutes across the red-rock floor of the Grand Canyon. It ducks down into another, deeper valley with golden trees, fields of Indian corn and horses that sleep in the autumn sun. The land down below, as it is known, is the world of th...
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WIRED
A portrait of the dangers in the sex trade

When Natasha Gomperts went for a job interview to become a “hostess” in a Mayfair club in London it was an eye-opening and brief introduction to a world in which men paid for women’s company — at the very least. “I had no idea what the job involved,” Gomperts says, reflecting on a brief teenag...
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The Times - UK

Welcome

February 06, 2010

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Welcome to my website. I hope these pages give you a flavour of some of my work in print, online radio and TV- and tell great stories.

There are human interest stories, like the women building the City of Joy in the Congo, the apartheid beauty queens of South Africa, the rebuilding of Cape Town’s District Six, the Muslim Women’s cycling club, the one million strong elected women of India – and the teams taking the Homeless World Cup by storm.

In the last few years I’ve reported from Africa, the Middle East, China and the USA.

You might like to read some of the interviews with great women like Nelson Mandela’s daughter Maki Mandela, Maya Angelou, Eve Ensler, Dionne Warwick, or Sofie Grabol. Or you might like to read an interview with the rapper Deadmau5.

There are science and technology stories here too, including the article on race-based medicine for WIRED magazine which was nominated for an award, the featur… [more]

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Top Ten Articles

India's Barefoot Revolution

It’s murder on your mobile, says The Killing’s Sarah Lund

Momma D: Dionne Warwick, the Grande Dame of Divas

‘If they gave me a house, I’d take it tomorrow’

How one man gave Congo’s women hope

Maki Mandela: “As Nelson's child, I can say I am proud of him”

A Race Apart: the beauty queens of the apartheid era

The Vagina Monologues turns ten

A Rogueish Queen

Kenyan women united in freedom and football