Deborah Campbell

Professor Campbell is an award-winning writer who has reported from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, Israel, Palestine, Cuba, Mexico and Russia. Her work, much of which involves spending long periods of time in the societies she covers, has appeared in Harper’s, The Economist, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, New Scientist, The Walrus, Ms. and Adbusters, where she spent five years as an associate editor. Her work has been included in anthologies and essay collections in Europe, Asia and North America, and her radio documentaries on international affairs have aired on NPR and CBC radio. She has won three National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence and has guest lectured at Harvard, Berkeley, and Zayed University in Dubai. Professor Campbell is the author of the nonfiction books This Heated Place and the forthcoming A Disappearance in Damascus.