Wendell Steavenson
Wendell Steavenson has written for Granta from Iraq and Lebanon. She is the author of Stories I Stole about Georgia, The Weight of a Mustard Seed about Saddam’s Iraq and Circling the Square, Stories from the Egyptian Revolution. She contributes to the New Yorker, the Guardian and Prospect Magazine and lives in Paris.
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Wendell Steavenson | Is Travel Writing Dead?
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‘Our globalised world of easyJet and Google Translate does not seem to have fostered any greater understanding’
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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.’