first, at the far, my far right is jeneanety giovani, "newsweek"'s middle east editor and a contributing editor at "vanity fair." at the start of her journalistic career, janine covered the first palestinian intifada in the 1990s. 1980s, i had that, i don't know why i said 1990s. [laughter] in her latest book, "the morning they came for us," she chronicles the war in syria using seven different perspectives. she provides a vivid picture of a ravaged nation as experienced by its citizens. among them, a nun, a doctor, a musician and a student. their stories convey the realities of modern urban warfare from the pervasive smoke to the hunger to the return of such previously-vanquished

first, at the far, my far right is jeneanety giovani, "newsweek"'s middle east editor and a contributing editor at "vanity fair." at the start of her journalistic career, janine covered the first palestinian intifada in the 1990s. 1980s, i had that, i don't know why i said 1990s. [laughter] in her latest book, "the morning they came for us," she chronicles the war in syria using seven different perspectives. she provides a vivid picture of a ravaged nation as experienced by its citizens. among them, a nun, a doctor, a musician and a student. their stories convey the realities of modern urban warfare from the pervasive smoke to the hunger to the return of such previously-vanquished diseases as typhus and polio. next is christina lamb with the sunday times. like janine, christina's introduction to conflict reporting also came in the late 1980s, but in pakistan and afghanistan. .. came in the 1980s but in pakistan and afghanistan. her journalism has taken her far and wide including brazil, south africa, zimbabwe and iraq but since the 9/11 attacks she spent quite a bit of time in afghanista