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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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