The Ultimate War Correspondent: Christina Lamb
VIEW EVENT DETAILSChristina Lamb, the US editor of the Sunday Times (London) comes to talk to us about juggling her roles as a war correspondent and a working mother. In 2006 she narrowly escaped with her life from a Taliban ambush of British troops in Helmand and in October 2007 she was on Benazir Bhutto's bus when it was bombed. She returned repeatedly to Zimbabwe, making 15 undercover trips since the murder of the first white farmer in 2000, remaining secretly in the country even after being declared an 'enemy of the state' by the Mugabe regime for her expose of rape camps of teenage girls.
Now based in Washington, after 22 years of roving the world's hot spots, Christina is Britain's leading female war correspondent. She has won numerous awards: the Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988 and has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times for reporting on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe. Judges described her as "the ultimate foreign correspondent."
She was last year's recipient of the Prix Bayeux, Europe's most prestigious award for war correspondents and chosen by Britain's top-selling women's magazine Grazia as one of its Icons of the Decade.
She spent a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is the author of the best-selling book The Africa House as well as House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe; Waiting For Allah: Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy; and The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, which was runner-up for Best Nonfiction book in the Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Awards. Her most recent book is Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands, a collection of her reportage.
She is a regular commentator on Sky and BBC TV and radio and has lectured all over the world from the Royal Geographical Society and Imperial War Museum in London and the Edinburgh Festival to NATO summits and the National Library in Wellington, New Zealand. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Lamb received a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University. She is on the board of Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and a patron of the charities Afghan Connection.
This event is sponsored by the Woman's National Democratic Club.
Now based in Washington, after 22 years of roving the world's hot spots, Christina is Britain's leading female war correspondent. She has won numerous awards: the Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988 and has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times for reporting on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe. Judges described her as "the ultimate foreign correspondent."
She was last year's recipient of the Prix Bayeux, Europe's most prestigious award for war correspondents and chosen by Britain's top-selling women's magazine Grazia as one of its Icons of the Decade.
She spent a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is the author of the best-selling book The Africa House as well as House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe; Waiting For Allah: Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy; and The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan, which was runner-up for Best Nonfiction book in the Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Awards. Her most recent book is Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands, a collection of her reportage.
She is a regular commentator on Sky and BBC TV and radio and has lectured all over the world from the Royal Geographical Society and Imperial War Museum in London and the Edinburgh Festival to NATO summits and the National Library in Wellington, New Zealand. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Lamb received a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University. She is on the board of Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and a patron of the charities Afghan Connection.
This event is sponsored by the Woman's National Democratic Club.
Event Details
Tue 12 Oct 2010
Asia Society Washington, The Cinnabar Room, Whittemore House, 2nd Flr. 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Washington, DC
Members $25, nonmembers $30, lecture-only $10.