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Politics & Prose Presents Janine Di Giovanni, Christina Lamb, and Kim Barker
P & P is proud to present three of todays most experienced and courageous war reporters for a discussion of their ongoing work in Syria and Afghanistan.
A veteran war correspondent and winner of two Amnesty International Awards and the National Magazine Award, Di Giovanni, Newsweeks Middle East editor and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, has covered the turmoil and civil conflicts in Sarajevo, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and Iraq; shes expanded on her reportage in book-length accounts such as THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, MADNESS VISIBLE, and GHOSTS BY DAYLIGHT. In her sixth book, THE MORNING THEY CAME FOR US, she chronicles recent events in Syria. Using seven different perspectives, Di Giovanni gives an indelible picture of the ravaged nation as experienced by ordinary citizens including a nun, a doctor, and a student. Their stories vividly convey the realities of modern urban warfare from the pervasive smoke to the hunger to the return of vanquished diseases such as typhus and polio.
Currently a foreign affairs correspondent for the Sunday Times, Lamb has been covering Afghanistan since she was twenty-one virtually her entire career has been devoted to this war-ravaged nation. Her work has earned her various British Press Awards, including the Young Journalist of the Year and the Foreign Correspondent of the Year titles, and she co-wrote I AM MALALA with the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai. Her sixth book, FAREWELL KABUL, examines the protracted conflict in Afghanistan--it is America's longest war and Britain's longest since the Hundred Years War exposing a series of errors and miscalculations on the part of the worlds strongest forces that has repeatedly failed to deter a smaller and less formidable opposition.
Barkers memoir, the basis for the film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Tina Fey, covers her eight years of reporting for The Chicago Tribune from Afghanistan and Pakistan, first as a rookie correspondent, then as the papers South Asia bureau chief. Now a journalist for The New York Times, Barker has an eye for the telling detail, especially when it paints a darkly absurdist picture. In The Taliban Shuffle, she recounts how she adapted to the unpredictability of a war zone, learning survival skills that included flattering warlords, jump-starting cars with whatever equipment was at hand, and conducting interviews with sexist world leaders. While she soon gained insight into an unfamiliar culture, she laments that many Americans serving in Afghanistan stayed aloof from the people they meant to help.
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3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016
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