About Janine: Biography and Interviews Articles, Books, Documentaries and Films Book Excerpts and Reviews Contacting Janine Press Photos Home Page EVENTS Third party: Down the Rabbit Hole Janine speaking in London, 29 January 2013, Frontline Club Janine at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 22-27 January 2013, as a Media Leader Janine di Giovanni on Syria and Reporting Conflict 4 December 2012 CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Fact and Faith 1 December 2012 US Institute of Peace (TED talk) 2301 Constitution Avenue NW [ watch this TED talk ] Inside Syria 30 November 2012 New America Foundation [ watch ]

Books by Janine di Giovanni Ghosts by Daylight winner of the 2012 Spear's Book Prize for Best Memoir Excerpts, reviews and interviews Bloomsbury [UK], July 2011 More information and purchase from Bloomsbury Purchase from Amazon (UK) Knopf [US], September 2011 Purchase from Amazon (US) Purchase from Barnes and Noble Purchase from Random House Purchase from your Indie bookseller 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

EVENTS, ARTICLES, BOOKS,
DOCUMENTARIES & FILMS

ARTICLES

Janine's weekly articles for Newsweek/The Daily Beast are available here.

• Life During Wartime: Remembering the siege of Sarajevo
      Harper's, April 2013
• What a Sad Little Empire Britain Has Become
      The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 22 March 2013
• I Watched Iraq Fall
      The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 17 March 2013
• Syria: When Nonviolent Revolutions Spin Into Bloodshed
      Newsweek, 11 March 2013
• The World’s Most Vulnerable Mayor
      The Daily Beast, 2 March 2013
• How France Got So Lazy
      The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 22 February 2013
• Seven Days in Syria
      Granta, Spring 2013
• Meet 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 2013
• After the Arab Spring, Yemen’s Women Are Left Behind
      Newsweek, 10 December 2012
• Mountaintop Town Is a Diverse Haven From Syria’s Horrors
      The New York Times, 21 November 2012
• Janine di Giovanni About Reporting From Syria
      The Lede, The New York Times, 25 October 2012
• Bleary-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)
• In a Land of Silence
      Granta (Autumn 2011)
• Love and War
      The New York Times (10 September 2011)

Columns, Op-Ed, Essays and Reviews:

• A war journalist on Angelina Jolie’s war film
      The Times (20 February 2012) [subscription only]
• Folkehjelperen: Hilde Frafjord Johnson i Sør-Sudan
      Dagens Næringsliv (07 January 2012)
• 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 Levy
• Window on History
      British Journalism Review (December 2010)
  Review of Looking for Trouble, by Virginia Cowles
• When 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 London
• War Crimes in the Balkans
      Wall Street Journal

Memoirs:

• Of Love and War
      The Daily Beast (25 October 2011)
• When war hit home
      Salon (1 October 2011)
• Mio figlio, l’amore e i fantasmi di guerra
      D, La Repubblica (September 2011)
• First Person
      Psychologies (August 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
      bookhugger (26 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)

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 (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)

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)
• 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:

• 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, 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:

• 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)

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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