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Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, in 2020 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest prize for non-fiction, the Blake Dodd. She is the author of nine books, the next one, The Vanishing, about Christians in the Middle East, will be published in the spring of 2021. She is a former Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her last book, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, has been translated into twenty-seven languages.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 152 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 152 padlock

Le Flottement

Janine di Giovanni

‘Their lives were halted in time, a predicament they accepted with grace, sometimes even with humor. They appeared to be floating.’

Art & Photography | Issue 145 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 145 padlock

The Hazara

Monika Bulaj & Janine di Giovanni

‘The people I met once I reached Bamiyan were not victims.’ Janine di Giovanni introduces Monika Bulaj’s photographs.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock

On the Road

Janine di Giovanni

‘But I still get homesick, that vast and deep pit in the stomach, every time I go away.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 131 padlock

After Zero Hour

Janine di Giovanni

‘It seemed there was a little piece of Iraqi earth inside me that refused to let me go.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 131
Essays & Memoir | Issue 131

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 122
Essays & Memoir | Issue 122

Seven Days in Syria

Janine di Giovanni

‘I had come to Syria because I wanted to see a country before it tumbled down the rabbit hole of war’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 116
Essays & Memoir | Issue 116

In a Land of Silence

Janine di Giovanni

‘She tells me that he died because he refused to be silent.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 116
Essays & Memoir | Issue 116

Finding Nusrat

Janine di Giovanni

‘We sat for sometime, and I found after a while that there was little I could say.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 111
Essays & Memoir | Issue 111

The Book of the Dead

Janine di Giovanni

I always begin bedtime stories to my son the same way: ‘Once upon a time, a long, long time ago . . .’

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