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2013
Syria’s Unspoken Crimes
Vanity Fair, August 2013Angelina Jolie's revelation of her mastectomy is just the latest from a brave and dedicated woman
The Guardian, 19 May 2013Life During Wartime: Remembering the siege of Sarajevo
Harper's, April 2013What a Sad Little Empire Britain Has Become
The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 22 March 2013I Watched Iraq Fall
The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 17 March 2013Syria: When Nonviolent Revolutions Spin Into Bloodshed
Newsweek, 11 March 2013The World’s Most Vulnerable Mayor
The Daily Beast, 2 March 2013How France Got So Lazy
The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 22 February 2013Seven Days in Syria
Granta, Spring 2013Meet the Austrian-American Hip-Hop Producer Turned Emerging-Nations P.R. Guru Who Throws the Best Parties in Davos. Tunisian Rap, Y'All!
Vanity Fair, 31 January 2013Covering the Conflict and Unspoken Crimes in Syria
WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show, 2013
2012
After the Arab Spring, Yemen’s Women Are Left Behind
Newsweek, 10 December 2012Mountaintop Town Is a Diverse Haven From Syria’s Horrors
The New York Times, 21 November 2012Janine di Giovanni About Reporting From Syria
The Lede, The New York Times, 25 October 2012Bleary-Eyed Troops Fight a Building at a Time in Syria
The New York Times, 24 October 2012 [with video]Denial Slipping Away as War Rattles Damascus
The New York Times, 17 October 2012 [with video]Syria, Bosnia and war reporting
ABC RadioNational (Australia) (11 September 2012) [audio]Syria: The Battle for Aleppo
France 24 (10 September 2012) [video]Syria crisis: Daraya massacre leaves a ghost town still counting its dead
The Guardian (7 September 2012)The Quiet American
The New York Times (3 September 2012)Josephine Bonaparte
BBC4 (7 August 2012)The Crisis In Syria, On A Human Level
NPR (26 July 2012)Life During Wartime in Syria
The New York Times (21 July 2012)Syrian Elite
Newsweek/The Daily Beast (11 July 2012) [CNN video]Champagne Flows While Syria Burns
Newsweek (9 July 2012)
2011
In a Land of Silence
Granta (Autumn 2011)Love and War
The New York Times (10 September 2011)
Memoirs
Of Love and War
The Daily Beast (25 October 2011)When war hit home
Salon (1 October 2011)In Love and War
Vogue (August 2011)
Four Questions for Reporter and Writer Janine di Giovanni
Vogue (27 July 2011)Extract from Ghosts by Daylight
The Observer (26 June 2011)Alcoholics Anonymous killed my marriage
The Daily Mail (30 June 2011)Uncle Sam
Port Magazine (23 March 2011)
Janine di Giovanni explains how there’s no place like home – and what it took to realise where it was.Why I tried the Hoffman Process of psychoanalysis
The Guardian (15 March 2011)My Life in Media
The Independent (January 2007)Nostalgia: Profile in Courage
Vogue (December 2006)When Bearing Witness Overrides a Reporter's Fear
Neiman Reports (Summer 2006)
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hearts, minds and bullets on the eve of an offensive in Helmand
The Times (1 February 2010)Courage and comradeship keys to survival for British Army in Sangin
The Times (23 January 2010)Afghanistan women outraged at proposed family planning law
The Guardian (24 July 2009)Gateway to Jihad: Pakistan’s Phantom Border
Vanity Fair (10 June 2008)
The Middle East
The Quest for Peace
Vogue Magazine (October 2006)The Enemy of Our Enemy, a profile of Ahmed Chalabi
The New York Times Magazine (February 2000)The Last Days of Iraq
Vanity Fair, (April 2003)Arafat's Last Ride
Vanity Fair (November 2003)Reaching for Power: The Shias of Iraq
National Geographic (June 2004)
Africa
A civil tongue: South Sudan tries to learn English
Harper's (March 2012)Libya: My Walk Through the Valley of Death
Newsweek (17 October 2011)Dark Days in Sierra Leone
The Times of London (May 2000)
Winner of the Amnesty International Award
for News Reporting, 2001Nobody's Children, Mogadishu, Somalia
The New York Times Magazine (February 2002)Small Voices in Zimbabwe
The Times of London (March 2002)Divine Injustice, Abuja, Nigeria
The Times of London (June 2002)And then they shot our car, Ivory Coast
The Spectator (September 2002)
The Balkans
Zbogom svemu tome (Goodbye to All That)
Radio Sarajevo (April 2012)Ratko Mladic: The Making of a Monster
Newsweek (29 May 2011)Divided They Stand
Prospect (September 2010)Fifteen years on, Srebrenica victims are laid to rest
The Times (12 July 2010)So many unanswered questions for the Mothers of Srebrenica
The Times (16 April 2010)Christmas in Sarajevo
Sunday Times (December 1992)So This is Peace
The Sunday Times (May 1993)Frontline Dispatches from the war in Kosovo
(March-June, 1999)
Winner of the Amnesty International Award
for News Reporting, 2000Prostitution gangs stalk camp women
The Times of London (May 1999)The Ground War That Was
The New York Times Magazine (June 1999)Madness Visible
Vanity Fair (July, 1999)
Winner of the National Magazine Award, 2000The Living Dead, Srebrenica
The Times Magazine (July 2005)Goodbye to all that
The Times Magazine (January 2004)
Columns, Op-Ed, Essays, Reviews
A war journalist on Angelina Jolie’s war film
The Times (20 February 2012) [subscription only]Review: Jolie captures the horrors of war
GulfNews (19 December 2011)Angie Goes to War
Newsweek (5 December 2011)Love and War
The New York Times (10 September 2011)Women at War: Marching to Freedom
Vogue (September 2011)In a Land of Silence
Granta (Autumn 2011)Reporters can be mothers too
The Independent (29 August 2011)Libya’s besieged journalists stir memories of Sarajevo
The Guardian (24 August 2011)And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding – review
The Observer (19 June 2011)Blueprint for a revolution
Financial Times (18 March 2011)A Le Pen as president?
The Spectator (19 March 2011)The 33: The Ultimate Account of the Chilean Miners' Dramatic Rescue by Jonathan Franklin – review
The Observer (6 March 2011)Lara Logan in Cairo - 'I will never forget
how scared I was'
The Telegraph (18 February 2011)Egypt: Tweet freedom
Wired UK (January 2011)France's Favorite Philosopher Does Battle
The Daily Beast (21 January 2011)
Review of Public Enemies, by Bernard-Henri LevyWindow on History
British Journalism Review (December 2010)
Review of Looking for Trouble, by Virginia CowlesWhen love and culture clash
Prospect Magazine (15 December 2010)Etre correspondant de guerre quand la guerre a changé
Libération (22 October 2010)Finding Nusrat
Granta (Autumn 2010)The Book of the Dead
Granta (Summer 2010)Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt
The Observer (26 September 2010)
Ingrid Betancourt spent six years as a prisoner of Farc in the Colombian jungle. Her memoir is not for the faint-hearted.Janine di Giovanni opens her diary
The Spectator (17 February 2010)La famille recomposée
The Spectator (19 December 2009)The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
The Times (19 December 2009)
Janine di Giovanni reviews a new translation of the feminist bible which restores essential passages that have been missing for 60 years.France's Burka Ban Uncovered
Harper's Bazaar (September 2009)The lure of the frontline
The Observer (10 May 2009)
Janine di Giovanni reviews Peter Beaumont's The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict.Local Wars
The New York Times (24 April 2009)
Janine di Giovanni reviews The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen.Spectres of Sarajevo
The Guardian (23 July 2008)Interventionism's moral imperative
The Guardian (1 July 2008)Nobody's children
The Guardian (1 May 2008)Plus Sarko change, plus c'est la même chose
The Guardian (22 April 2008)Democratic Vistas
New York Times (20 January 2008)
Janine di Giovanni reviews Larry Diamond's The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World.Srebrenica
International Herald Tribune (July 2005)How my child saved me from ego-driven mania
The Times of London (March 2005)An African Paradise Lost
Wall Street Journal (June 2004)Kidnapping in Iraq
The Times of LondonWar Crimes in the Balkans
Wall Street Journal
Lives
From Torture to Triumph
Harper's Bazaar (February 2010)Troubleshooter: General Sir David Richards
The Times Magazine (8 August 2009)Janine di Giovanni on Rachel Corrie
The Times (14 March 2008)The Bhutto Legacy
Vogue (March 2008)'What's a Girl to Do When a Battle Lands in Her Lap?'
The New York Times (21 October 2007)
Travel
The Soul of St. Barts
Condé Nast Traveler (June 2010)Crazy for Lake Como
Vanity Fair (September 2007)Two in the Bush
The New York Times Magazine (February 2007)Secret Tuscany
The New York Times Magazine (May 2006)Up at Tito's Villa
The New York Times Magazine (May 2005)
Miscellaneous
Chechnya: For her reporting on the fall of Grozny in February, 2000, in which she was one of three Western journalists alone in the country, di Giovanni won Britain's Grenada Television Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award in December 2000.
Life and Death in East Timor, Dili, East Timor
The Times of London (September 1999)Evil Things Happened Here, Samashki, Chechnya
The Times of London (February 2000)The Fall of Grozny
The Times of London (February 2000)Dead men tell no lies: Justice in Jamaica
The Times of London (May 2001)The Place at the End of the World, Afghanistan
Vanity Fair (November 2001)Fallen Heroes Westbrook, Maine, USA
The Times of London (June 2004)Hope Wanted: Aids in India, Chennai, India
Vogue USA (December 2004)
Press About Janine
Mio figlio, l’amore e i fantasmi di guerra
D, La Repubblica (September 2011)
First Person
Psychologies (August 2011)