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Books by Janine di Giovanni The Place at the End of the World: Essays from the Edge Bloomsbury [UK] Reviews More information Madness Visible Bloomsbury [UK] March 2005 (paperback) More information Purchase online Knopf, November 2003 Purchase hardcover online Vintage, February 2005 Purchase paperback online The Quick and the Dead Phoenix, January 1995 Purchase online Against the Stranger: Lives in occupied territories Viking, 1993 Purchase online

ARTICLES, BOOKS,
DOCUMENTARIES & FILMS

ARTICLES

Columns, Op-Ed, Essays and Reviews:

• 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 London
  
• War 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)
  
• The French Resistance: a romantic ideal for most
      The First Post (25 June 2008)
  As a new film celebrates the Resistance, Janine di Giovanni finds nobility in survival.
  
• Janine di Giovanni on Rachel Corrie
      The Times (March 14, 2008)
  
• The Bhutto Legacy
      Vogue (March, 2008)
  
• 'What's a Girl to Do When a Battle Lands in Her Lap?'
      The New York Times (October 21, 2007)
  

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:

• Sierra Leone: Case Study from Crimes of War
  
• Dark Days in Sierra Leone
      The Times of London (May, 2000)
      Winner of the Amnesty International Award
      for News Reporting, 2001
  
• Nobody'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:

• 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, 2000
  
• Prostitution 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, 2000
  
• The Living Dead, Srebrenica
      The Times Magazine (July, 2005)
  
• Goodbye to all that
      The Times Magazine (January, 2004)
  

Travel:

• 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)
  

Memoires:

• 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)
  

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)
  

DOCUMENTARIES AND FILMS

No Man's Land: This 1993 film follows Janine di Giovanni as a young reporter in Sarajevo.

Dead Men Tell No Tales: In Jamaica, a secret war exists. Janine di Giovanni investigates for the BBC (story based on the film was nominated for an Amnesty International Prize, 2002).

Lessons from History: Five years after the Bosnian war ends, Janine di Giovanni returns for the BBC to examine what peace really means.

Bearing Witness: Oscar award-winning director Barbara Kopple profiles five women who cover war. During the filming in 2003-04 Janine di Giovanni struggles to combine her work as an award-winning war reporter with new found marriage and upcoming motherhood.

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