Jabhat al-Nusra, here, here, here
Jabr, Firis, here
Jadid, Salah, here
Jawiya Air Force prison, here
Jews, here, here, here, here, here
Jibal al-Alawiyin mountains, here
Kadi Askar bakery, here, here
Karadzic, Radovan, here
Khaled, Dr, here
kidnapping, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Knissat Bani Az, here
Knost, Stefan, here
Kosovo, here, here, here, here
Kuwait, here
Lahidji, Karim, here
Latakia, here, here, here, here, here
Le Jardin Restaurant, here
Leningrad, siege of, here
Liberia, here, here
Libyan revolution, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Ma’loula, here
nuns in, here, here
and support for Assad, here
Makdissi, Jihad, here
Maria (refugee), here
Matar, Ghaith, here
Maundrell, Henry, here
Mezzeh military airport, here
al-Midan district (Damascus), here, here
Milosevic, Slobodan, here
Ministry of Information (MOI), here, here
Mladic, Ratko, here
Mohammed (baker), here
Mohammed (gravedigger), here
Moisin, Sheikh, here
Mood, General Robert, here, here
mosques, destruction of, here
Mosul, here, here, here
falls to ISIS, here
‘mouse holes’, here
Muallem, Walid, here
Mubarak, Hosni, here
Mueller, Kayla, here
Muir, Jim, here
Mukhabarat (secret police), here, here, here
Muslim Brotherhood, here, here
Nada (rape survivor), here, here, here, here, here, here
Narenj Restaurant, here, here
Nasrallah, Adnan, here
‘Natashas’ (Russian dancers), here, here
Negev Desert, here
Nuremberg Trials, here
OBUA (Offensive Operations in Built Up Areas), here, here
olive-oil soap, here
al-Omari Mosque, here
Ottoman Empire, here, here
Palestinians, here
Palmyra, here
passports, here
petrol, price of, here
Pinheiro, Paulo, here
polio, here, here
prison conditions, here
Psalm here, here
Putin, Vladimir, here
al-Qaeda, here, here
Qardaha, Assad family mausoleum, here, here
Qatar, here, here, here
rakia, here
rape and sexual violence, here, here, here, here
in Muslim culture, here, here
Raqqa, here, here
refugees, here, here, here, here, here, here
Armenian, here
return to Homs, here
and sexual violence, here, here, here, here
Yazidi, here
Renda (reporter), here
Rida (businessman), here
Rifaf (soldier), here, here, here
Rosen, Nir, here
Russia, here, here, here, here
Rwanda, here, here, here, here, here, here
Saadeh, Maria, here
St Paul, here, here, here
St Takla, here
Sala al-Din district (Aleppo), here
Salafists, here, here, here
salat (Muslim prayers), here
SANA news agency, here
Sarajevo, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Saudi Arabia, here, here, here
Sayaf, Mother, here
Sexton, Anne, here
Shabiha militia, here, here, here, here, here, here
Shaheeneez (rape survivor), here, here
sharia law, here
Shaza (MOI minder), here, here, here
al-Shifa Hospital, here, here, here, here
Sierra Leone, here, here, here
Silk Road, here
Sinjar, here
soldiers, dead and wounded, here
Solvang, Ole, here, here
Somalia, here, here
Sopia (mother in Homs), here
Sotloff, Steven, here, here
Srebrenica massacre, here, here, here
Sri Lanka, here, here, here
‘sticky bombs’, here
Sudan, here
suicide bombers, here
suicides, here, here
Suleiman, Fadwa, here, here, here
Sunni Muslims
and anti-government campaign, here
in Ma’loula, here, here
in Tartus, here
tension with Alawites, here, here
Syria
achieves independence, here, here
Ba’athist coup, here, here
border with Iraq erased, here, here
civil war begins, here, here, here
death toll, here
ethnicities and identities, here, here
failing economy, here
French rule, here, here, here, here
numbers of missing and detained, here
Syrian Air Force, here
Syrian Children’s Orchestra, here
Syrian Organization for Human Rights, here
Syrian Youth Union, here
Tartus, here
Tilly, Charles, here
Tishreen military hospital, here
torture
dehumanizing effect of, here
in Iraq, here
in Israel, here
medical, here
psychological, here, here
and sense of betrayal, here
strategies for survival, here
systematic nature of, here
see also rape and sexual violence
Tremseh, here, here
Tunisian, here, here, here, here
Turkey, here, here
Twitter, here, here, here
Umm Hamid, here, here
Umm Hussein, here
UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria, here
UN personnel, here, here, here
UN Security Council, here, here, here, here, here
UNESCO world heritage sites, here, here
UNHCR, here, here, here
Urban Operations (UO), here, here
Valley of Salt, here
Violations Documentation Center (VDC), here, here
Vogue, here, here
Al Watan newspaper, here
White, Darren, here
Yabroud, here
Yazidis, here, here
YouTube, here, here
Zabadani, here, here
Zahra, Dr, here
Zarzour Hospital, here
Zeitouneh, Razan, here
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Ghosts by Daylight
Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later – after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had passed between them – they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together.
The remnants of their separate lives, now left behind, are tentatively unpacked into their shared apartment on the Right Bank: Bruno’s heavy blanket from Ethiopia, a set of long feathered arrows from Brazil, an ash tray stolen from a hotel in A
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But having met in another lifetime – in another world – ordinary, civilian life doesn’t come easily. War has become part of them: it had brought them together, and, though both are damaged by it, neither can quite leave it behind. And the difficult journey that follows, through their mix of joy and terror at becoming parents, Bruno’s battle with post-traumatic stress and addiction, and Janine’s determination to make France her home, leads to an understanding of the truth that people who deeply love each other cannot always live together.
A searing, profoundly moving love letter, beautifully written, Ghosts by Daylight is a powerfully raw portrait of marriage and motherhood in the aftermath of war.
‘Janine di Giovanni writes with unblinking courage about war, death, marriage, motherhood, loss, love, redemption, fear – indeed, about all the world’s most pressing risks and dangers … Her writing here (as ever in her remarkable career) is a great and important achievement’ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Madness Visible
Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals. This was a conflict that raised challenging questions: what causes neighbours, whose families have lived peacefully for centuries, to turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally ill-defined? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed?
Searching for answers, di Giovanni brings the reality of war into focus: children dying from lack of medicine, women driven to despair and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps and soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed. In Madness Visible she paints an indelible portrait of the Balkans under siege and shows the true – human – cost of war.
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The Place at the End of the World
At the start of her career Janine di Giovanni was advised, ‘Write about the small voices, the people who can’t write about themselves.’
For over fifteen years, she has been doing exactly that. From a near-abandoned hospital in Chechnya to bombed-out Tora Bora in Afghanistan, from Saddam Hussein’s derelict palace in Baghdad to the inner-city barrios of Kingston, Jamaica, di Giovanni has covered almost every embattled place in the world and the people caught in its midst. Like Myriem, who lives on the West Bank, but can no longer use her farm because it falls on the Israeli side of the security fence; and Sia, one of the child soldiers of Sierra Leone, who talks blithely of shedding her violent past; and Abdul, who was imprisoned by the Taliban at seventeen for not wearing a beard.
The pieces collected here begin with Algeria in 1998 and end with Iraq in 2005. They are vivid, raw and impassioned – and they make war terrifyingly real.
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