Janine Di Giovanni

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1) The vanishing: faith, loss, and the twilight of Christianity in the land of the prophets

Author

Di Giovanni, Janine

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Pub. Date

2021.

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"From Syria to Egypt, northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities that were the birthplaces of prophets and saints are losing any living connection to Christianity, the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, journalist Janine di Giovanni writes about the last traces of small, hardy Christian communities that have become fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly...

2) The morning they came for us: dispatches from Syria

Author

Di Giovanni, Janine

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

2016.

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Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, 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 pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people―among...