Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni is the Middle East editor of Newsweek. A war and conflict reporter for twenty-five years, she is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and was recently made an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University for her work on trauma victims. She also advises the Untied Nations Refugee Agency and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She is also the author of an upcoming book on Syria: The Morning they Came For US.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

After Zero Hour

Janine di Giovanni

‘It seemed there was a little piece of Iraqi earth inside me that refused to let me go.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘As soon as we’ve uncovered and neutralized one strain of self-deception then another is ready to take its place’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Seven Days in Syria

Janine di Giovanni

‘I had come to Syria because I wanted to see a country before it tumbled down the rabbit hole of war’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

In a Land of Silence

Janine di Giovanni

‘She tells me that he died because he refused to be silent.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Finding Nusrat

Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni reported from Sarajevo during the siege of the early 1990s. She returned...

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

The Book of the Dead

Janine di Giovanni

I always begin bedtime stories to my son the same way: ‘Once upon a time, a long, long time ago . . .’