Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presents: The Human Face of the Middle East Refugee Crisis

Published: Sept. 29, 2016, 10 a.m.

Janine di Giovanni, Middle East Editor of Newsweek, contributing editor of Vanity Fair and contributor to The New York Times and The Guardian, is one of Europe's most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called 'established, accomplished brilliance' and she has been cited as 'the finest foreign correspondent of our generation'. She recently became an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University in recognition of her work on violence and war and the trauma it brings to society, and has been named as one of the 100 most influential people reducing armed conflict by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV). She is also an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Policy Studies. Her themes are conflict, stability, transitional justice and security.

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