Notes from the Field: How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror
Rukmini Callimachi joined The New York Times in 2014. Her series of articles, “Underwriting Jihad,” showing how ransoms paid by European governments had become one of the main sources of financing for Al Qaeda, won the George Polk Award in International Reporting. She is also a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, the winner of the Michael Kelly award, and the first journalist in the 75-year history of the Overseas Press Club to win both the Hal Boyle and the Bob Considine awards the same year.
Earlier this spring, she wrote an extensive feature piece on ISIS’s use of birth control to maintain a steady supply of sex slaves. Last summer, she wrote of the lonely young American woman from rural Washington state lured by ISIS. Her insights come not only from dangerous work in the field, but also from meticulous trolling online.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Callimachi spent ten years at the Associated Press before joining the Times. From 2006 to 2014, she was based in Dakar, Senegal, covering 20 countries as the AP correspondent and West Africa bureau chief.
Ms. Callimachi’s Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights and the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
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