Peace meals anna badkhen biography

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    Freelance journalist Anna Badkhen spent the last 10 years covering conflict zones. She shares the personal stories of the affected people with whom she met, spoke, laughed, and ate along the way in her new book, Peace Meals, in which the meals she shared serve as a frame for humanizing the way she reports on war.

    Anna Badkhen was born in the Soviet Union, where she began her journalism career, and has been working as a freelance journalist since she moved to the US a few years ago. “Peace Meals” is her first book.

    Wednesday, November 3, 2010

    4:30 p.m.

    Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

    Maps and directions to campus are available.

    Sponsored by: Serendipity Fund, FFS, Peace and Conflict Studies, and War News Radio

    Listen to Anna Badkhen interviewed by Chuck Nevius of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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    Anna Badkhen


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    Anna Badkhen has won awards for her reporting from the Middle East, Central Asia, East Africa, and her native Russia and the Caucasus. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and other publications. The author of Peace Meals and other nonfiction books, she lives in Philadelphia.

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    The World Is A Carpet, June 2013
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