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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
