Word: journalisting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said, an academic, journalist, writer and activist for Palestinian causes, died in September of leukemia. His 1978 book, Orientalism, critiqued western conceptualizations of eastern cultures...
Garcia Marquez, 75, who has been fighting lymphatic cancer since 1999, intends this book to be the first of three volumes. It ends with him as a journalist, just 27 years old, flying to cover a summit meeting in Geneva and writing a love letter to his future wife. By that time we have seen him grow up, mostly in the small town of Aracataca, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. For his first eight years, he saw little of his parents, whom he will reimagine years later as the thwarted couple in Love in the Time of Cholera...
There is no hope of brokering peace in the Middle East in this generation because Palestinians are not ready to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, prominent Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi told an audience of 70 at the Harvard Hillel last night...
Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music?an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong?can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq...
...female journalists have written memoirs that capitalize on their ability to slip across the cultural membrane that segregates men from women in Afghanistan. In The Bookseller of Kabul, Norwegian journalist ?sne Seierstad describes herself as bi-gendered: free to circulate among men but also able to enter the welcoming?and asphyxiating?world of Afghan women. After covering the fall of the Taliban, Seierstad joins the household of an erudite bookseller for four months. She is drawn to Sultan Khan (a pseudonym) because of his encyclopedic knowledge of Afghan culture?she calls him "a history book on two feet...