A conversation with Janine di Giovanni on her new book: "“The Vanishing"
The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents hosts a conversation with Janine di Giovanni on her new book, “The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets”.
WHEN: Friday, October 15 at 4 pm EST
PRAISE FOR THE VANISHING
“[DiGiovanni] writes with poignant authenticity as she weaves her own deeply personal faith experiences with those of a parade of Middle Eastern citizens who populate the history she recounts of Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt, places foundational to early Christianity... Di Giovanni’s many interviews and own observations detail heartrending circumstances that have wreaked irreparable harm to families, towns, and countries. The words of one Syrian expat, ‘Our present is a failure, but our past is glorious,’ illustrate di Giovanni’s difficult, essential undertaking.”—Booklist“
In this informative work of journalism and memoir, war reporter Di Giovanni (Ghosts of Daylight) recounts her travels through the Middle East with a focus on rapidly shrinking Christian minority groups...The propulsive account is marked by the author’s keen eye for detail and the stories of the people involved...perfect for anyone interested in the Middle East, or in how humans live through war.”—Publishers Weekly
“In her latest poignant book, veteran war correspondent and Guggenheim fellow di Giovanni focuses on Christian communities struggling to survive in the region where the religion had its birth... The author presents a distinctly personal and subjective account full of empathy and humanity amid upheaval.”—Kirkus
Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is the winner of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2020 was awarded the Blake Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her lifetime achievement in non-fiction; it has previously been awarded to Alexander Stille and Elizabeth Kolbert. She has won a dozen other international awards. She is a senior fellow at Yale University, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and the former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Affairs in New York. Her accolades are well-deserved; she has written and reported from the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East, where she witnessed the siege of Sarajevo, the fall of Grozny, and the destruction of Srebrenica and Rwanda in 1994, as well as more than a dozen active conflicts. She lives in Paris, France.