Hadani ditmars biography

  • Hadani Ditmars is an author, journalist, and photographer who has reported from Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq, often examining the human costs of.
  • Hadani Ditmars is a deputy editor at Elle Canada and writes for the BBC, CBC TV and Radio, Wallpaper*, New York Times, Independent and Time.
  • CAREER: Journalist and writer.

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    Ditmars, Hadani

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada.

    CAREER:

    Journalist and writer. Reporter in the Middle East, —; reporter in Iraq, —. Has also reported from Iran, North Africa, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Colombia, Indonesia, and Gaza; work has been broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

    WRITINGS:

    Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey through Iraq (memoir), Olive Branch Press (Northampton, MA),

    Contributor to periodicals, including Time, New York Times, Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Independent, Globe and Mail, Vanity Fair, Ms., Elle, and Vogue.

    SIDELIGHTS:

    Journalist Hadani Ditmars lives in Canada, but has reported from several countries in the Middle East. She took her first trip to Iraq in for the New York Times. While there, she saw the effects of then-president Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime. Harsh sanctions were inflicted on the Iraqi people, cau

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    Selected Articles:

    Spirited Comeback (link)
    Wallpaper* January,

    Haaretz

    Canadians John Greyson and Tarek Loubani imprisoned in Egypt
    Haaretz (link)

    Bradford Synagogue Saved by Local Muslims
    Haaretz (link)

    Art Spiegelman profile
    Haaretz (PDF)

    Miko Peled profil "the General's Son"
    Haaretz (link)

    Palestinian support for Idle No More
    Haaretz (link)

    Gerry Judah profile
    Haaretz (PDF)

    Arab Theatre in London
    Haaretz (PDF)

    For Jerusal

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    Author, journalist, and photographer Hadani Ditmars has reported from Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq, often examining the human costs of sectarian strife as well as cultural resistance to war, occupation and embargo.

    Hadani is a former editor at New Internationalist magazine and last travelled to Baghdad in to write and photograph the May  issue Iraq, 7 years later, the legacy of invasion.

    Her best selling book Dancing in the No Fly Zone (chosen by the Globe and Mail as one of best and most influential books of ) recounts her time in Iraq from until the fall of and is one of the few books on the troubled nation that covers pre and post invasion reality. As Iraq continues