Events

What is Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?: IMAC Brownbag with Linda Polman and Nicole Pope

Linda Polman is a freelance journalist specializing in international military and humanitarian interventions. She has worked for Dutch national television and radio, European radio stations, and a range of Dutch and Belgian newspapers. In this conversation with students, she will discuss media coverage during crisis situations as well as her recent book, The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?.

Nicole Pope is a journalist and writer based in Istanbul. She has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq and in Lebanon and is co-author of Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern Turkey, published by Overlook Press (fourth edition due in the fall 2011). Her forthcoming book on honour killings will be published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.