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Anna Badkhen, Contributor

Anna Badkhen writes about people in extremis. She is a journalist and the author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban. She has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Chechnya, and Kashmir, among others. Her wartime journalism won the 2007 Joel R. Seldin Award for reporting on civilians in war zones.