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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.

Wendell Steavenson on Granta.com

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Wendell Steavenson | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Wendell Steavenson

‘Our globalised world of easyJet and Google Translate does not seem to have fostered any greater understanding’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Possible

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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.’

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