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She has reported
from the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Dubai, Egypt, England, Estonia,
France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Monaco, Morocco, the Netherlands, the Sultanate
of Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Tunisia, United
Arab Emirates, Ukraine, and Western Sahara.
She
served as an embedded war correspondent with the USMC in 2003, where she translated for her unit in Iraq. As
a result, she now works part-time as an advisor on Islam, Arab Culture, the media, and Strategic Communications for the USMC’s
Center for Advanced Operational Culture (CAOCL) at Quantico, Virginia. Apart from her full time work as a journalist, she also periodically trains Mideast-bound American contractors
to become culturally competent on Middle Eastern issues.
Her
students include US military corrections officers, police, intelligence officers, and the US Justice Department. Ms. Ferguson has taught part-time with the Naval Postgraduate School’s
“Leadership Development and Education for Sustained Peace,” LDESP, and conducts CAPSTONE classes
at National Defense University; lectures PAOs on Arab Media and Islam at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Maryland
and regularly speaks at various other military events and non-military events.
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