in French from UCLA and a Master's in International Relations from Oxford University; she also spent a year of study at the Sorbonne.
She became a correspondent for The Irish Times in 1996, after resigning, in the wake of the Qana massacre, from Time, where she was Beirut bureau chief, in protest at the reluctance of its editors to print anything critical of Israel.
Marlowe is a leading journalist on the Middle East as well as domestic French politics.
While based in Washington D.C. for The Irish Times, Marlowe traveled twice to Haiti reporting on the immediate aftermath of its catastrophic earthquake in January 2010, and again in July 2010.
Marlowe has written three books: The Things I've Seen (2010), Painted with Words (2011) and Love in a Time of War (2021).