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Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Full of faith and hope, di Giovanni's riveting personal stories make a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past

At once necessary, difficult and elating. Her reporting from the Syrian revolution and war is clear-eyed and engaged in the best sense - engaged in the human realm rather than the abstractly political. . . . Such reporters as Giovanni, who not only visit but also live (and often die) through wars not their own, are heroic Robin Yassin-Kassab Guardian

A masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front page of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni chronicles a nation on the brink of disintegration, all written through the perspective of ordinary people. With a new epilogue, what emerges is an unflinching picture of the horrific consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war zone. The result is an unforgettable testament to resilience in the face of nihilistic human debasement.

Eve Arnold - Die berühmte Magnum-Fotografin Eve Arnold (1912–2012) wurde als erste Frau Mitglied der legendären Fotoagentur Magnum. Aufgewachsen in einer armen russischjüdischen Immigrantenfamilie in Philadelphia, entdeckte sie erst spät ihre künstlerische Begabung, die sie ab Mitte der 1950er-Jahre zu einer der bekanntesten Fotografinnen machte. Ihre einfühlsamen Porträts von Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth oder Malcolm X ebenso wie ihre sozial engagierten Reportagen aus dem damals noch weitgehend abgeschotteten China brachten ihr zahlreiche Preise ein und begründeten ihren Ruf als eine der wichtigsten Fotografinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihr künstlerisches Spektrum reichte von „den Beinen Marlene Dietrichs bis zu Wanderarbeitern bei der Kartoffelernte“, so Robert Capa.

From award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni a scorching memoir of love and loss

Superb war reporting which sits alongside that of Martha Gellhorn, Fergal Keane and John Simpson