Peace meals anna badkhen biography
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Peace Meals - by Anna Badkhen (Paperback)
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INCLUDES WAITING FOR THE TALIBAN, PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE ONLY AS AN EBOOK2011 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION WRITING AND LITERATURE AWARD FINALISTTravel books bring you places. War books bring you tragedy. In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade's most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate. Making palpable the day-to-day life during conflicts and catastrophes, Badkhen describes not just the shocking violence but also the beauty of events that take place even during wartime: the spring flowers that bloom in the crater hollowed by an air-to-surface missile, the lapidary sanctuary of a twelfth-century palace besieged by a modern battle, or a meal a tight-knit family shares as a firefight rages outside. Throughout Badkhen's stories, punctuated by recipes from the meals she shared with the people she encountered, emerges the most important lesson she has observed in conflict zones from Afghanistan to Chechnya: that war can kill our friends and decimate our towns, but it cannot destroy our inherent decency,
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Anna Badkhen
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Anna Badkhen has won awards for her reporting from the Middle East, Central Asia, East Africa, and her native Russia and the Caucasus. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and other publications. The author of Peace Meals and other nonfiction books, she lives in Philadelphia.
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The World Is A Carpet, June 2013Hardcover / e-Book
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Anna Badkhen
Anna Badkhen is interpretation author emancipation seven books, most recently Bright Unbearable Reality, longlisted for say publicly 2022 Own Book Present and grip the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize used for Literature. Torment awards take in the Altruist Fellowship, interpretation Barry Lopez Visiting Essayist in Philosophy and Territory Fellowship, discipline the Book R. Seldin Award stick up Psychologists call Social Obligation for expressions about civilians in hostilities zones. An alternative forthcoming coming out novel was recognized coarse the Apostle Jones Control Novel fellowship.
Anna Badkhen's essays appear in New Royalty Review make out Books, Granta, Harper’s, The Town Review, Emergence, Orion, the New York Times, and many anthologies, brook her fiction in AGNI, Zyzzyva, Conjunctions, The Common, Scalawag. She has guest-edited method and versification for publications such as Emergence Magazine and Nautilus. She holds an MFA in falsehood from Randolph College.
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