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56 quotes by Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni is an author, award-winning foreign correspondent, and current Middle East editor at Newsweek. She is a regular contributor to The Times, Vanity Fair, Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Di Giovanni is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a Senior Policy Manager/Advisor at the Centre for Conflict, Resolution and Recovery for the School of Public Policy at...
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There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

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In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically... →

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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much... →

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Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only... →

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To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's... →

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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

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It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

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Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

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Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

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I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

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In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

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In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

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It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

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