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Anna Badkhen
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Anna Badkhen

Anna Badkhen was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States in 2004. She began covering conflicts in 2001 and has written about people in extremis from four continents for Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Times, and other... Read full bio

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Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
A. Poor grammar.
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Peace Meals will be released on December 10, 2010 in Hardcover
Dec 10, 2010
Peace Meals is now available in Hardcover
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Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Walking. Which is almost the same as writing: you look busy. Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Poor grammar. Q. Is there a book you love to reread? A. Yes. Poetry: Galway Kinnell, Gerald Stern, WS Merwin, Robert Hass, Zbigniew Herbert, Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Larry Levis. Rumi. Poetry is magic: the right poem always finds you. The same goes for much of Jorge Luis Borges's writing, I think. Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers? A. Love language. Take in the world with your heart open. Break rules. Don't limit yourself to one sentence if you must say more. Learn more about Anna Badkhen

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Foreign Policy Magazine, May 13, 2013
...Also available from FP on Amazon Kindle Islamists in a Changing Middle East Marc Lynch Afghanistan by Donkey Anna Badkhen We Never Knew Exactly Where...
Denver Post, January 2, 2013
...better or for worse. 23. "The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village," by Anna Badkhen (May) War correspondent and Foreign Policy contributor Anna Badkhen has been traveling to Afghanistan since 2001 to document the U.S. war's toll on...
Foreign Policy Magazine, December 18, 2012
...few key months. Other Foreign Policy standouts this year include the ebook we published by author and contributor Anna Badkhen, Afghanistan by Donkey, her moving account of a year's reporting from the country's forgotten, tormented north; Arab...
BBC, March 27, 2013
...local soldiers getting out of hand. But Samaruddin's case may point to something more troubling. US journalist Anna Badkhen researched the events and met Samaruddin's colleagues in the border police. "I went to his supervisors and we sat in an office...
Zaman, February 9, 2013
...DJENNÉ, Mali -- Last Saturday, Albert Ganou, an unemployed tour guide with an ailing heart, prostrated on a thin cotton blanket in his musty room and refused to eat. His limbs swelled. His breath grew shallow. When his pregnant wife and four daughters...
Foreign Policy Magazine, February 5, 2013
...DJENNÉ, Mali - Last Saturday, Albert Ganou, an unemployed tour guide with an ailing heart, prostrated on a thin cotton blanket in his musty room and refused to eat. His limbs swelled. His breath grew shallow. When his pregnant wife and four daughters...
Willits News, January 20, 2013
...better or for worse. 23. "The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village," by Anna Badkhen (May) War correspondent and Foreign Policy contributor Anna Badkhen has been traveling to Afghanistan since 2001 to document the U.S. war's toll on...
Las Cruces Sun-News, January 3, 2013
...better or for worse. 23. "The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village," by Anna Badkhen (May) War correspondent and Foreign Policy contributor Anna Badkhen has been traveling to Afghanistan since 2001 to document the U.S. war's toll on the...
Denver Post, January 2, 2013
...better or for worse. 23. "The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village," by Anna Badkhen (May) War correspondent and Foreign Policy contributor Anna Badkhen has been traveling to Afghanistan since 2001 to document the U.S. war's toll on...
IJnet.org, November 21, 2012
...your interpreter’s translations, ask the interpreter to give you a full translation," she writes. War correspondent Anna Badkhen Badkhen told Shin that if she senses that the translator is summarizing, "she will dissect the answer into parts and repeat...