凯丽·墨菲因在伊拉克1990年入侵科威特期间为《华盛顿邮报》进行的报道而获得普利策奖，随后又报道了海湾战争的激烈战事，她于10月19日去世，享年79岁。尽管被推向冲突报道的前沿，撰写战术机动和地缘政治姿态的电讯，但她的关注点始终在人身上。2006年离开《华盛顿邮报》后，她于2008年重返沙特阿拉伯，那是我们相识之地，当时我们报道的是一个截然不同的王国。
Caryle Murphy, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting for The Washington Post from Kuwait during Iraq’s 1990 invasion and went on to cover the intense battles of the Gulf War, died on Oct. 19 at the age of 79. Though thrust into conflict reporting, filing dispatches on tactical maneuvers and geopolitical posturing, her focus was always on people. After leaving the Post in 2006, she returned to Saudi Arabia in 2008, where we met while covering a very different kingdom.
我关注石油、金钱和地缘政治，而凯丽试图理解一代年轻沙特人，几年后他们将帮助改变国家面貌（她为此写了一本书）。在利雅得的多次长晚餐中，我从凯丽身上学到了做一名优秀记者所需的谦逊、对细节的敏锐洞察，以及在众人逃离时冲向现场的勇气。
I was focused on oil, money, and geopolitics, while Caryle tried to understand a younger generation of Saudis who, just a few years later, would help transform their country. (She wrote a book about them.) Over long dinners in Riyadh, I learned from Caryle about the humility needed to be a great journalist, the eye for detail, and the courage to rush toward the scene as others fled.
我最喜欢的她的报道之一——几年后当我转行做冲突报道时曾重读，至今仍引用给那些傲慢地将海湾国家军队斥为无能或懦弱的人——是她关于哈夫吉战役的电讯。这是第一次海湾战争的一个脚注：十二名美国海军陆战队员被多达600名伊拉克军队困在沙特城镇哈夫吉，后被沙特-卡塔尔联合部队解救。据她的报道，战斗中有十几名沙特士兵阵亡。
One of my favorite stories of hers — which I returned to when I switched to conflict reporting a few years later, and still cite to those who arrogantly dismiss Gulf militaries as ineffective or cowardly — was her dispatch from the Battle of Khafji. It is a footnote to the first Gulf War: Twelve US Marines were trapped in the Saudi town by as many as 600 Iraqi troops before being freed by a joint Saudi-Qatari force. A dozen Saudi soldiers died in the battle, according to her report.
近二十年后，凯丽和我同属一组记者，会见了哈立德·本·苏尔坦王子，他在海湾战争期间指挥阿拉伯联军，当时正领导一场针对胡塞武装的军事行动。王子认出了凯丽，却想不起在哪里见过。我脱口而出说她在沙特军队突围前就已身处哈夫吉，引来一阵大笑。两人随即以只有亲历战争者才有的方式回忆起那场战争。
Almost two decades later, Caryle and I were among a group of reporters meeting with Prince Khaled bin Sultan, who had commanded the joint Arab forces during the Gulf War and was then leading a campaign against the Houthis. The prince recognized Caryle, but couldn’t remember where they had met. I immediately blurted out that she had been in Khafji even before Saudi forces broke through, eliciting a laugh. The two then reminisced about the war in a way that only those who had witnessed it could.