What does Bram write about?
Bram works for different magazines, newspapers and websites about a range of subjects.
Hereby a selection of his work by category.
Unfortunately almost all of these stories are in Dutch. English where indicated (English).
(*Click on link to open Article in PDF file)
International affairs / Politics
A cross-case analysis of seven Muslim foreign fighter mobilizations (1980-2014)
Thesis written in completion of the selective MA International Relations in Historical Perspective of Utrecht University. This 2014 study has also been included in the Foreign Fighters of Terrorism Bibliography of the Terrorism Research Initiative.
‘Satisfied in Europe’s dictatorship’: Reportage about Belarus
Published in the Belgian magazine Knack, 2007 (6,37 MB)
Written for Belgian magazine Humo, 2004
Interview with American priest in El Salvador Dean Brackley on the results of ‘9-11’
Published in Dutch magazine Hervormd Nederland, 2002
Interview with Chilean judge Juan Guzmán who became famous internationally for being the first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights
Published in Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer, 2002
Society
Series: Border zones in Eastern Europe
Published in Dutch daily De Pers and the Belgian newspaper De Tijd, 2008
‘Locked in by Europe’: reportage about Russian exclave Kaliningrad
Published in Dutch magazine De Humanist as well as the Belgian magazine MO, 2008
Reportage on treatment programme for traumatised refugee families
Published in Dutch magazine Psy, 2007
Feature story on euthanasia on newborn children in The Netherlands (Spanish)
Published in Spanish newspaper El Mundo, 2004
Story on the uprising of right wing extremism in South Africa
Published in Dutch magazine De Humanist, 2003
Reportage in Buenos Aires about protests by children of missing parents from Argentinean’s dirty war
Published in Dutch magazine of Amnesty International Wordt Vervolgd, 2002
Reportage about Chernobyl’s refugees, 16 years after the nuclear disaster
Published in Dutch newspaper Het Parool, 2002
Healthcare
Interview with former Norwegian prime minister Bondevik about his depressive episode (english)
Published in magazine Psy, 2008. The article won the For Diversity, Against Discrimination Journalist Award
Article on people suffering from acute psychoses on holiday
Published in Dutch Aware Magazine, 2007-09-04
Story on the high use of the isolation of separation cell in Dutch psychiatric hospitals
Published in Psy, 2006
Background article on foreign forensic psychiatric systems compared with the Dutch TBS-system
Published in Psy, 2006
Reportage on drugs trade & abuse in Dutch psychiatric hospitals
Published in Psy, 2005
Reportage on health care system in the United States
Published in Dutch magazine Tijdschrift voor Verzorhing en Beheer, 2004
Article on shortages at neonatal unit in South-African hospital (English)
Published in South-African Newspaper Cape Times, 2002
Culture /Arts
‘Excellent psychotherapy on television’. American psychiatrist Gabbard reviews The Sopranos.
Published in Dutch weekly VPRO Gids, 2008
Article on project enabling artists to live and work amongst psychiatric patients in a Dutch clinic.
Published in Dutch magazine Psy, 2007
Interview with Gijs van Tuyl, director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Published in Dutch magazine Kijk op het Westen, 2005
Interview with artist Junkie XL
Published in magazine Touch, 2003
Interviews with South-African stand-up comedians about the limits of humour in South Africa (English)
Published in South-African newspaper Cape Argus, 2002
Report on youth festival EXIT in Novi Sad, Serbia
Written for Dutch student magazine SUM, also published in Dutch daily Spits, 2002
Report on Hungarian pop festival Sziget in Budapest
Published in Dutch daily Spits, 2002
Article on VJ-culture in Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Brussels
Published in Belgian magazine Move-X, 2002
Report on electronic music festival Dedbeat in Great Yarmouth, England
Published in Dutch BG Magazine, 2002
Report on Swedish filmfestival in Gothenburg
Published on website on film of VPRO/Volkskrant, 2001
Travel journalism
‘Nothing tops Murmansk’
Published in Dutch dailies such as Het Parool, 2008
Reportage about Portugese Douro valley and the city of Porto
Published in Dutch corporate magazine Taste!, 2007
Education
Reportage about Dutch students in New York during the US presidential elections
Published in student magazine Trajectum, 2004
Story on South-African student graduating while in prison (English)
Published in South-African newspaper Cape Times, 2003
Article about student life in Buenos Aires at the start of the economic crisis
Published in student magazine Trajectum, 2002
Religion / Philosophy
Interview with Canadian professor William Randall about narrative gerontology
Published in Psy, 2006
Article on the use of philosophy in business
Published in Dutch magazine Kijk op het Westen, 2006
Interview with Arch bishop of Southern Africa Ndungane
Published in Dutch Katholiek Nieuwsblad, 2003
Business
Feature article about the people behind the car navigation company TomTom (English)
Published in Spanish and English magazine of Spanish newspaper El Mundo, 2007
Interview with chief economist of Statistics Netherlands about consequences of an aging population
Published in supplement of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, 2007
Interview with Nuon director on ‘stadswarmte’, residual heat from waste incineration
Published in Dutch magazine Bouw & Uitvoering, 2007
Article on Dutch amusement park Walibi World
Published in magazine Kijk op het Westen, 2006
Interview with business woman of the year Yvonne Swaans
Published in magazine Kijk op het Westen, 2005
Wine
Article on premium port wine
Bought by news agency GPD and published in different Dutch regional newspapers, 2007
Reportage about the increasing popularity of premium port
To be published in glossy magazine Salomé, 2007
Article about self confidence of South-African winemakers (English)
Published in South-African newspaper Cape Argus, 2002