Malia Politzer

Malia Politzer is an investigative journalist at Finance Uncovered, a UK-based nonprofit focused on financial transparency and global accountability. She was part of a team with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that produced the Pandora Papers investigation. During her ICWA fellowship in India and Spain in 2013–2015, she reported on key migration routes through Morocco and Spanish enclaves in North Africa. She was a Stabile Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and holds a master’s in investigative and multimedia journalism and a bachelor’s in liberal arts from Hampshire College. Her reporting has appeared in outlets including The Wall Street Journal-Asia, Foreign Policy and the Migration Policy Institute’s The Source.

Posts and Dispatches from Malia Politzer:

• Malia Politzer Wins National Magazine Award!
  ICWA is thrilled to announce that recent Fellow Malia Politzer’s article ‘The 21st Century Gold Rush: How the Refugee Crisis is Changing the World Economy‘ has won both a National Magazine Award and and an award from the Overseas Press Club. Politizer was a ICWA Fellow from 2013-2015 based in Spain and wrote about the...

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• The Mosque in the Cathedral
  The Economist – Recent Fellow Malia Politzer has written a new piece for the Economist about the the mosque-cathedral of Córdoba. The article explores accusations claiming that the Catholic Church has taken over the mosque-cathedral, rebranding it as a cathedral only, and has obscured its Muslim history. For those who followed Malia’s work as an ICWA...

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• Migration Crisis in Spain: Where are the Xenophobes?
  June 2015 Pilar was 24 years old when she and her husband decided to go to France, to work as agricultural laborers on a farm owned by a wealthy Frenchman in 1955. Born in Albuñuelas, a tiny pueblo of 5000 people an hour north of Granada, Pilar knew what it was to live frugally. Both...

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• The Battle Over the Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral and Spanish Identity
  May 2015 The first time I saw the Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral was during a vacation to Spain. I remember walking into the building, and feeling a sense of awe as I stared up at the rows of striped arches, dimly lit by elegant brass lamps. Nestled in the heart of the mosque is a cathedral bathed...

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• “Yo no soy Charlie”: Spanish Muslims react to the Paris attacks
  Malia Politzer January 2015 \MP-16   PARIS, France – Earlier this month, France experienced its worst terrorist attack in 50 years. It started the morning on the 7th of January, at approximately 11:30am, when two men wearing balaclavas and bulletproofed vests, and armed with Kalashnikovs, forced their way into the editorial meeting of the Paris-based...

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