Investigative Journalism with Eliza Griswold March 20, 2007

This will be the last lecture in a four-part series called Harper's Magazine: From the 19th Century to the 21st.
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AND REPORTING FROM
ABROAD WITH HARPER'S MAGAZINE JOURNALIST
ELIZA GRISWOLD
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
7:00 PM
Eliza Griswold, who has reported for Harper's Magazine from the Middle East and Asia, is currently a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University . While reporting for Harper's, she has dodged the Jihad in Pakistan's tribal lands, and in Katmandu has been caught between the Maoist rebels and the king's army.
She will speak about her first non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel an examination of the latitude where the Christian and Muslim worlds meet from West Africa through Southeast Asia. Specifically, how passages in the Bible and the Quran have been used as social and political weapons and how the fissures between Christianity and Islam are changing the face of contemporary faith.
Griswold: "I'm looking at apostacy, martyrdom (both Christian and Muslim), exclusive salvation, and what 'sharia' actually means. Each story is told through the human stories of individuals along the faultline. I call them allegories of faith and life in the 21st century."
She received the first Robert I. Friedman Award in Investigative Journalism in 2003. In 2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish her first collection of poems Tigers.
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Admission:
$15 for non-members
$10 for members and
$5 for students

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