Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is writing a book about Christians in the Middle East, The Vanishing, which will be published by Bloomsbury next year.
Three days that shamed the world
Janine di Giovanni on the profoundly moving Oscar-nominated film that is teaching young Bosnian Serbs about the awful truth of the Srebrenica massacre
Lessons of Bosnian war and peace
I’m still haunted by a murderous conflict the Western world ignored until it was too late
Real life seems distant now
Marooned by the pandemic, a war reporter looks for silver linings
Fighting persecution with prayer
Egypt’s ancient Christian people remain second-class citizens despite President Sisi’s pledge to protect them
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
