Cathy Otten is a journalist and the author of With Ash On Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR books 2017). She is based in Manchester, UK, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at Rutgers University.
The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: “The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… No book has covered it better.” She is a former correspondent for the Independent, and has written for the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Aeon, and more. She won the One World Media New Voice Award and was a finalist for the Kurt Schork courage in journalism award.
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