Wendell Steavenson
WENDELL STEAVENSON has lived in and reported from post-Soviet Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir, Stories I Stole, about post-Soviet Georgia, and The Weight of a Mustard Seed, about life in Saddam’s Iraq and the aftermath of the American invasion. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Telegraph, Granta, Slate.com, Time, New Yorker, and other publications. She lives in Paris.
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‘I don’t know how to think about this. How to stretch compassion for one person into a million.’ Wendell Steavenson on Europe’s migrant-refugee crisis.
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Victory in Lebanon
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‘We are from God and we return to God.’
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A Prisoner of the Holy War
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‘Thayr held out. He would not betray his country, he would not betray his leader.’
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Osama’s War
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‘He, of course, had nothing to be frightened of; if he died as a mujahid he was going to a paradise heaven.’