Special 12- week Online Course
with Award-Winning Author and Yale Professor
Janine Di Giovanni
Narrative Nonfiction Workshop
Guggenheim Fellow
Recipient, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Highest Prize for Nonfiction
Starts Sunday, May 3
This course meets every Sunday at 12:00 noon, NY time (6:00 p.m. Paris time),
live with Janine Di Giovanni, in our cool, online classroom feature live
audio, video and screen sharing. Download the Syllabus here. Each week you will
have the live, 1-hour class, and assignments tailored to your particular
project. Attendees receive written notes and editing each week on their
work, in addition to the live discussion and lectures.
We limit this course to 10 writers.
This course meets every Sunday at 12:00 noon, NY time (6:00 p.m. Paris time),
live with Janine Di Giovanni, in our cool, online classroom feature live
audio, video and screen sharing. Download the Syllabus here. Each week you will
have the live, 1-hour class, and assignments tailored to your particular
project. Attendees receive written notes and editing each week on their
work, in addition to the live discussion and lectures.
We limit this course to 10 writers.
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Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, a Senior Fellow and Professor at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. If you want to see a short video CNN made about her life and work when the International Women’s’ Media Foundation gave her their prestigious Courage in Journalism Prize in 2016 for her life’s work, watch HERE and one compelling article about her was published in The New Yorker.
Janine writes long format reportage, mainly about war and the politics of conflict. She was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, and is also a public speaker and a foreign policy analyst. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest non fiction prize, the Blake Dodd. Janine is currently working on a new book called The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East which will be published in 2021. Her previous book, The Morning they Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria was translated into 30 languages and was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. Click here to read more about it. She has published eight other books. You can read more about them and support her work by buying them HERE. Di Giovanni was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She reported extensively in Iraq pre and post invasion, and the Arab Spring and finally Syria. Her field work for her current book takes her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt and Syria. Her focus is on war crimes; global terrorism; refugee issues and sexual violence during war time. Her goal is to document evidence on the ground that can later be cited in war crimes tribunals. She works alone; often undercover and in closed and difficult countries. She is the former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has won more than a dozen awards, including the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Prizes and the prestigious Courage in Journalism, and many others. You can see the full list HERE. As an analyst, Janine has written governmental white papers and been a Senior Consultant for projects for the UN Refugee Agency; the UN Democracy Fund; the The Shattuck Center on Conflict, Negotiation and Recover; the International Refugee Commission. She is an International Board Member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, and she is also an advisor on strategic communications. Di Giovanni was a long-time Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Times of London and a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair. She now writes for the New York Times; the Washington Posts; The Guardian; The New York Review of Books; Harpers; The Atlantic; Foreign Affairs and many other publications. She currently has a twice monthly column ion Global Affairs in The Nation Newspaper, in Abu Dhabi which you can follow HERE. As a speaker, her TED Talk “What I saw in the War” has nearly 1million hits on YouTube. You can see it HERE. She has been a Delegate to the World Economic Forum, Davos; The UK Governments’ Conference on Sexual Violence during War Time; a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School; Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Government; the London School of Economics, She has moderated events at The World Bank, The United Nations, the US State Department; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she was a Pakis Fellow in 2016. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the British Governments Stabilization Unit for Fragile States. She is a non-resident Fellow at New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy. A multi-national, di Giovanni lives in Manhattan with her son, Luca Girodon, but she also considers London and Paris home. Di Giovanni has written thousands of essays, reportage and Op Eds over her thirty year career, and you can see all of them HERE. But to make life simpler, here are her favorite top ten stories:
And for something a bit lighter, Janine’s travels with her Yugoslavian mentor and “Godmother” the late Dessa Trevisan UP AT TITO’S VILLA (THE NEW YORK TIMES) And here some are some recent TV clips of her as a foreign policy analysis: MSNBC: NYT: CUSTODY OF ISIS FIGHTERS IN DOUBTCNN: "WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CIVILIANS" IN SYRIAMNSBC: ANALYSISLISTEN TO JANINE WITH BRIAN LEHRER ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO |