JON LEE ANDERSON has written for the New Yorker since 1998, reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia, Cuba, Liberia, and many other countries. He has also profiled a number of contemporary political leaders, including Augusto Pinochet, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Hamid Karzai. Among his books are Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, The Fall of Baghdad, and The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. In 2009, he won an Overseas Press Club Award for a story about life in Rio de Janeiro’s gangland.
SCOTT ANDERSON is the author of novels, nonfiction books, and screenplays for films, including Triage, which starred Colin Farrell as a war photographer. He writes for magazines that include Vanity Fair and the New York Times magazine. He is currently working on a book about T. E. Lawrence.
JASON BURKE is the South Asia correspondent of the Guardian. He has been reporting from the subcontinent since the mid-1990s, excepting a few years working in the Middle East. His 2003 book, al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, sold more than seventy thousand copies in Britain and has been translated into twelve languages. A second book, The Road to Kandahar, followed. A third book, a contemporary history and investigation of the wars, militancy, and campaigns against terrorism that have marked the first decade of the twenty-first century, will be published in 2011.
RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN, a senior correspondent and associate editor of the Washington Post, is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. The book, which provides a firsthand view of life inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, won the Overseas Press Club book award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize, and Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize. It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2007 by the New York Times and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has served as the Post’s national editor and as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia.
BARBARA DEMICK is the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and a former Seoul correspondent. Her book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for best nonfiction in 2010 and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI is an award-winning writer who has reported from war zones for twenty years. The author of four books, she is widely anthologized, and two documentaries have been made about her life and work. Her next book, Ghosts by Daylight, will be published by Knopf in 2011.
FARNAZ FASSIHI is the Beirut bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal and author of Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unravelling of Life in Iraq. Fassihi has been reporting in the Middle East for more than a decade and covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She served as Baghdad bureau chief for the Journal for three years. She won six national journalism awards for her coverage of the 2009 Iranian election and uprising, including the Robert Kennedy Award for best international reporting and the Hal Boyle Award from the Overseas Press Club.
JOSHUA HAMMER, Newsweek’s Jerusalem bureau chief between 2001 and 2004, is now a freelance foreign correspondent based in Berlin. He is the author of three books, including A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place.
TIM HETHERINGTON was a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose documentary film Restrepo won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. He was killed while working in Libya in 2011.
ISABEL HILTON is a London-based writer and broadcaster whose work has appeared in the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the New Yorker, Granta, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, El Pais, the Financial Times, the Economist, and many other publications. Her particular interests include China, South Asia, and Latin America. She is the author of The Search for the Panchen Lama and appears regularly on the BBC.
LEE HOCKSTADER spent thirteen years as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post in Latin America, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and the Mideast. Now a member of the Post’s editorial board, he lives in Washington with his wife and two children.
SAM KILEY is a writer, a broadcaster, and the author of Desperate Glory: At War in Helmand with Britain’s 16 Air Assault Brigade. He has worked for the Times of London, the Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard, and Britain’s Channel Four. In 1996 he won Britain’s Granada Foreign Correspondent of the Year award for his coverage of the fall of Mobutu’s Zaire. He is the security editor for Sky News.
CHRISTINA LAMB is the Washington bureau chief of the Sunday Times of London and author of several books including the best-sellers The Africa House and The Sewing Circles of Herat. She has won Britain’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year award five times. Her latest book, The Wrong War, will be published in 2011.
MATT McALLESTER grew up in Scotland and lives in New York. As a correspondent for Newsday he covered numerous conflicts. He is a visiting professor of journalism at the City University of New York, a freelance magazine writer, and the author of three books, including a memoir of his mother, Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother’s Kitchen.
JAMES MEEK was for many years a foreign correspondent for the Guardian and is the author of four novels, including The People’s Act of Love, which has been translated into twenty languages. He was named Britain’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year in 2004.
MATT REES is an award-winning crime novelist and foreign correspondent who lives in Jerusalem. Rees covered the Middle East for a decade and a half for Time magazine and Newsweek. His series of Palestinian mysteries won the Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger and has been published in twenty-three countries. His latest book is Mozart’s Last Aria, a historical novel about the death of the great composer.
CHARLES M. SENNOTT is the executive editor and cofounder of GlobalPost, a Web-based international news organization. He is the author of three books, including The Body and the Blood: The Middle East’s Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace. A longtime foreign correspondent and Middle East bureau chief for the Boston Globe, Sennott has reported from more than thirty-five countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Israel-Palestine.
WENDELL STEAVENSON is the author of two acclaimed books, Stories I Stole, about Georgia, and The Weight of a Mustard Seed, about an Iraqi general and the morally compromising times of Saddam Hussein. The Weight of a Mustard Seed was named a notable book of 2009 by the New York Times. She has written about the Caucasus and the Middle East for many publications, including Time magazine, Slate, the Financial Times magazine, the New Yorker, and Granta.
AMY WILENTZ is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier, and of Martyrs’ Crossing, a novel. She is a professor in the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine, and a former Jerusalem correspondent for the New Yorker. She writes about Haiti for the New Yorker and other publications.