Janine di Giovanni Libros

Superb war reporting which sits alongside that of Martha Gellhorn, Fergal Keane and John Simpson

At once necessary, difficult and elating. Her reporting from the Syrian revolution and war is clear-eyed and engaged in the best sense - engaged in the human realm rather than the abstractly political. . . . Such reporters as Giovanni, who not only visit but also live (and often die) through wars not their own, are heroic Robin Yassin-Kassab Guardian

Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Full of faith and hope, di Giovanni's riveting personal stories make a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past

From award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni a scorching memoir of love and loss

A masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front page of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni chronicles a nation on the brink of disintegration, all written through the perspective of ordinary people. With a new epilogue, what emerges is an unflinching picture of the horrific consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war zone. The result is an unforgettable testament to resilience in the face of nihilistic human debasement.

Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of Balkan violence and vengeance from inside the cities and villages, from refugee camps, makeshift hospitals, and the homes of citizens under siege. Now, she paints an indelible portrait of the war through the staggering experiences of the people who suffered it. It was a conflict that raised challenging What causes neighbours whose families have lived peacefully side by side 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 permanently destroyed? Searching for the answers, di Giovanni brings the human face of war into piercing children dying from lack of medicine, soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed; women driven to despair and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps. Acutely perceptive, unflinching, powerfully written - "Madness Visible" will join the work of John Reed, Martha Gelhorn, Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski as a classic of its time.

Eve Arnold - Die berühmte Magnum-Fotografin Eve Arnold (1912–2012) wurde als erste Frau Mitglied der legendären Fotoagentur Magnum. Aufgewachsen in einer armen russischjüdischen Immigrantenfamilie in Philadelphia, entdeckte sie erst spät ihre künstlerische Begabung, die sie ab Mitte der 1950er-Jahre zu einer der bekanntesten Fotografinnen machte. Ihre einfühlsamen Porträts von Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth oder Malcolm X ebenso wie ihre sozial engagierten Reportagen aus dem damals noch weitgehend abgeschotteten China brachten ihr zahlreiche Preise ein und begründeten ihren Ruf als eine der wichtigsten Fotografinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihr künstlerisches Spektrum reichte von „den Beinen Marlene Dietrichs bis zu Wanderarbeitern bei der Kartoffelernte“, so Robert Capa.

Janine und Bruno wollen sich ein gemeinsames Leben aufbauen - die beiden Kriegsreporter, die sich im belagerten Sarajevo ineinander verliebt haben. Aber der Plan, nach den zahlreichen Einsätzen in der ganzen Welt in Paris endlich als Familie Fuß zu fassen, will und will nicht aufgehen. Ihr Alltag wird immer wieder von den Erlebnissen der Vergangenheit eingeholt. Mitreißend und mit schonungsloser Offenheit erzählt die renommierte Kriegsberichterstatterin Janine di Giovanni davon, was es heißt, ankommen zu wollen, ohne ankommen zu können.

Téma občanské války v Sýrii plní již několik let zpravodajské relace sdělovacích prostředků. Sledujeme reportáže, dozvídáme se o postojích politiků, nicméně celý konflikt už vnímáme spíše jako sled děsivých čísel. Co je však za těmito čísly? Jsou to především osudy konkrétních lidí, kterým válka sebrala domov, blízké, lidskou důstojnost či je donutila k hromadné emigraci. A právě o těchto lidech je tato kniha. Kniha sestávající z osobních výpovědí, které lépe než než co jiné ilustrují co je skutečně válka.