Janine di Giovanni: Dispatches from Syria

Janine di Giovanni: Dispatches from Syria

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Please note: This event took place in Feb 2016

Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for over 20 years and is considered one of her generation's finest foreign correspondents. In May 2012, she travelled to Syria and began reporting from both sides of the conflict, witnessing its descent into one of the most brutal, internecine wars in recent history. Drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught up in the fighting, Syria came to consume her every moment, her every emotion.

Speaking to those directly involved, di Giovanni relayed the personal stories of rebel fighters thrown in jail at the least provocation; of children and families forced to watch loved ones taken and killed by regime forces with dubious justifications; and of the elite, holding pool parties in Damascus hotels, trying to deny the human consequences of the nearby shelling.

Following on from her other acclaimed books about her work from places of violent struggle, di Giovanni's latest, The Morning They Came for Us, is an unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration. She talks about life in a jihadist war, courage and human resilience in the face of devastating, unimaginable horrors.

Speaker Biography

Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for over 20 years. She has written seven books, is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Granta and Harper's among many others. A frequent foreign policy analyst on television, she has won many awards including Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award, the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Media Awards, and the Spear's Memoir of the Year Award for Ghosts by Daylight. She is a Fred Pakis scholar in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as the president of the jury of the Prix Bayeux for war reporters and is a media leader at the World Economic Forum, Davos. www.janinedigiovanni.com


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