User:Janinibini/sandbox

Hi

I am not a professional Wikipedia editor so I'm probably doing this worng! but I'd just like to point out my education should read: Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in International Relations Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa) MFA and University of London, Queen Mary's College MA

also, I am a GLobal AFfairs columnist at Foreign Policy and The National (not Newsweek)

The below is a bit more accurate about my career- use what you see fit

Janine di Giovanni[1] is an American journalist, war reporter, academic and author with British and French nationalities. She is a SeniorFellow at Yale a University’s Jackson Instiute for Global Affairs. She is a Global Affairs columnist at Foreign Policy and The National Newspaper in Dubal. Previously, she worked as the Middle East editor at Newsweek and regularly contributes to The Times, Vanity Fair,[2] Granta,[3] The New York Hapers Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times,[4] and The Guardian.[5] Di Giovanni has published eight books, the latest being, “The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria”. In October, 2021, she will publish The Vanishing about Chrisitan minorities in the Middle East. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship to research the book in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Gaza. In 2020, she was awarded the Blake Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her body of work in non fiction.

In 2015, di Giovanni was awarded a Pakis Fellowship from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to study International Law and Relations. She graduated in March 2016 after completing a thesis on Track II diplomacy in the Syrian civil war.[6]

She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers; Workshop, an MA from the University of London where she studied Comparative Literature.

In 2016, di Giovanni was awarded the Courage in Journalism prize from the IWMF.[7] She also won the Hay Medal for Prose from the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts.[8] The New York Times Michiko Kakutani said of her latest book, "Like the work of the Belarussian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Ms. di Giovanni’s book gives voice to ordinary people living through a dark time in history; ...it chronicles the intimate fallout that war has on women, children and families."[9] Kirkus Review described her, and her book;“[Di Giovanni] is a master of war reporting, especially its civilian side. Thanks to her bitter sacrifice, Western readers may begin to appreciate the chaos that Syrian refugees continue to flee. This brilliant, necessary book will hopefully do for Syria what Herr’s Dispatches (1977) did for Vietnam.”[10] Anand Gopal of The New York Times described it as ‘Heartbreaking, [A] haunting reminder of what the Syrian revolution, ultimately, is about’.[11] Denise Hassanzade Ajiri writing in the Christian Science Monitor said that Giovanni’s latest book ‘A must read filled with bitter realities. It is a call to the outside world not to forget what is happening in Syria’.[12] Nearly all di Giovanni’s essays, journalism and books are about war and conflict except a biography of the Magnum Foundation of the photographer Eve Arnold. Di Giovanni also works as an adviser on foriegn policy; she has served as a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a Senior Policy Manager/Advisor at the Centre for Conflict, Resolution and Recovery for the School of Public Policy at Central European University. She is a non-resident Fellow at The New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in International Security as well as a member of the British governments Stabilization Unit for Fragile States. In 2013, di Giovanni was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world of armed violence by the organisation Action on Armed Violence (AOAV).

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