All my life when I was in places where I was deeply frightened — the Siege of Sarajevo, for instance — I would seek out churches, because I felt when I was there that I wasn’t alone.
In her latest book, The Vanishing, celebrated war reporter Janine di Giovanni reports from some of the Middle East’s most ancient Christian communities — communities she argues may be at risk of disappearing.
In this podcast, she joins New Lines’ Lydia Wilson to talk about a career reporting conflict, what drew her to the subject of the book, the complex reasons why Christians are leaving the Middle East, and how the experiences of minorities in Iraq, Syria and Palestine differ.
Produced by Maggie Martin