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The Saturday Profile
The Year in People: Our 12 Favorite Saturday Profiles of 2023
From a Nobel Peace Prize winner, to a mayor hunted by the Russians, to a poet whose muses are cats, our profiles featured people shaping the world around them, often under the radar.
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Clockwise from top left: Johannes Fritz, an Austrian biologist; Nomcebo Zikode, a South African singer; Moha Alshawamreh, a Palestinian tech worker; Hwang In-suk, a South Korean poet; Shinjiro Atae, a J-pop idol; and María Mercedes Coroy, a Guatemalan actress. Credit...Clockwise from top left: Nina Riggio for NYT; Alexia Webster for NYT; Laura Boushnak for NYT; Jun Michael Park for NYT; Noriko Hayashi for NYT; Daniele Volpe for NYT
By Bryant Rousseau
Bryant Rousseau is the editor of The Saturday Profile
Dec. 29, 2023, 5:03 a.m. ET
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A teenager jailed in Egypt, determined to bear witness to the abuses he suffered during years of detention. A proponent of peace in Colombia, shadowed by death threats. A father in India, fighting his own patriarchal impulses to give his two daughters a better life.
With reports from six continents and 34 countries, the Saturday Profile in 2023 revealed people making a difference, mostly under the radar. Every week, our correspondents often sought out not the famous nor the powerful, but the unheralded with stories worth hearing.
A Muslim cleric in Ukraine, now a medic on the front lines of the war. An anticorruption whistle-blower in Bangkok, with (he’d be the first to admit) a disreputable past. A scientist and hair salon owner in Paris, dedicated to styling curly hair.
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