Yasir Khan has covered wars, revolutions, and has chased camels through the Australian Outback. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, he has worked for outlets including CBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and Euronews, and is currently editor-in-chief of Thomson Reuters Foundation. He talks about lessons from his career, including how he avoided becoming the "Muslim correspondent," and how empathy may have literally saved his life.

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Further resources:

Watch Yasir Khan’s documentary “Camels in the Outback”:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2014/12/26/camels-in-the-outback

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