Jan. 15, 2022

Janine di Giovanni : author of The Vanishing

Janine di Giovanni : author of The Vanishing

Janine di Giovanni is Senior Fellow at Yale’s Jackson Global Institute. For the last 30 years she has reported on some of the most violent and destructive conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. 

In 2019 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in The Middle East and in 2020 she won the Blake Dodd Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her body of work spanning 30 years. 

She is Global Affairs columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and The National, Abu Dhabi as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Washington Post. 

Janine joins us on The San Francisco Experience on Wednesday, January 19 to discuss her ninth book, The Vanishing.

In her latest book, she recounts the fast disappearing Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, Gaza and Egypt.  What can be done to save them before they become extinct ?  Is it too late ? These ancient religious groups were among the earliest Christian communities after the death of Jesus Christ.  

So make sure to listen to Jim Herlihy’s interview with Janine this coming Wednesday.

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Jim lived in Latin America - Ecuador, Chile and Mexico - for 7 years working in the financial services industry. But as a side interest, he was a stringer, (freelance journalist), for The Economist, the BBC, The Times and Business Latin America. Returning to San Francisco, he served as the President of the San Francisco Public Library from 1992 to 1996. The Commission runs the 27 public libraries in San Francisco, one of America's leading urban public library systems. His debut novel, a financial thriller "Deceit and Dirty Money" is available through Amazon.com. Jim is drawn to Podcasting, as the medium brings together all the traditions of writing, broadcasting, technology and marketing. Deeply committed to fostering international relations through Citizen Diplomacy, he serves as the Co-Chair and founder of the San Francisco Bangalore Sister City Committee, which links India's Silicon Valley to San Francisco. He is the Treasurer of the San Francisco Cork Sister City Committee which is one of 19 sister city relationships San Francisco has developed to foster international trade and culture.

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