difficult times and through struggles. as somebody who is from iraq and who has family there and actually, i agree with my two colleagues there. as women, we can end up in situations where we are able to tell those human stories incredibly effectively. i remember a colleague, many years ago, saying to me that doing refugee stories are doing stories refugee stories from refugee camps, those are the soft stories. and others are the hard stories. they said, oh, i don t mind, you people with less experience doing the soft stories. they are not soft stories. these are hard, painful, harrowing stories that need to be told. and as journalists, a lot of the reasons why we do this is that we can tell those stories. and the way that that has changed now, we are right we