/PRNewswire/ The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative today announced its lineup of global thought leaders and local changemakers speaking at the upcoming Aurora.
The Reckoning Project team has handed over to Ukrainian prosecutors more than 250 documents with the testimony of victims and witnesses of Russian war crimes against Ukraine, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said.
dwindling fast. janine di giovanni is a longtime correspondent who turned her eye for this issue and new book faith lost in the twilight of christianity in the land of the prophets. janine, this is such an interesting and important book. what drew you to it? when did you sort of realize yourself this is extraordinarily the big trend not many people have written about? yes, exactly. i started working on it really 30 years ago when i started working in the middle east exclusively. and what i found, especially around the time of the fall of saddam hussein in 2003 in iraq was so many of the christians were leaving. they were either fearful of a change of hand, of what would happen when saddam left, and then much later in 2014, of course, when the islamic state rolled through. and now there s even greater challenges for them. when people think about the middle east, you do think about the expulsion of jews, which is
i said why did you stay, what kept you here? and they looked at me and said, this is our land. of we have been here for 2,000 years. janine di giovanni, pleasure. fascinating, fascinating book. thank you so much. next on gps when beethoven died, he left behind nine symphonies as you probably know. but did you know he started a tenth? the fascinating story of the humans and machine that completed it.
Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni will speak at Center for American Studies on 21 March in an event organised by The American University of Rome.