Christina Lamb

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Christina Lamb, 2014

Christina Lamb OBE (born May 15, 1966 in London ) is a British journalist who is currently a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times . She is a Nieman Fellow of Harvard University and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society . She won the title of "Foreign Correspondent of the year" four times.

Journalistic career

Lamb was at the University College in Oxford accepted and the Chemical Sciences enrolled for the study, but this changed later and began her studies in philosophy , politics and economics , she with the Bachelor graduated.

Her journalistic career began as an intern at the Financial Times . She held her first major interview with Benazir Bhutto in London in 1987, after which she was invited to their wedding in Pakistan later that year. So she started her career as a foreign correspondent in Pakistan. She traveled to Kashmir and along the borders of neighboring Afghanistan , where the mujahideen fought against the Soviet occupiers. During this time she conducted various interviews with Afghans, including the later Afghan President Hamid Karzai .

She was brought back to London by an Inter-Services Intelligence unit who did not like the content of her journalistic work; she was forbidden to travel the country again.

Lamb was soon summoned to Brazil and fell in love with the country and all of its culture and romance. She interviewed President Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello , who was currently involved in a corruption affair. She moved to Harvard shortly to become a Nieman Fellow , and there she met her future husband, Paulo Anunciacao.

She then moved to post-apartheid South Africa , but the relationship was not as close as it was with Brazil. Over the next ten years she moved back and forth between London, Portugal , Zimbabwe , Brazil, Iraq , Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In early 1999, she married Paulo in Zanzibar, and their son was born in the summer, the day before she interviewed the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , who was under house arrest in Wentworth. Lamb described the plight in Zimbabwe in a powerful report. Since 1994 she has described the destruction by Robert Mugabe and how it seemed to get worse every day.

In 2006 she wrote a report on British paratroopers on a mission in southern Afghanistan. After meeting with residents of the city, they were assigned a safe route. A little later, the British were attacked by the Taliban. Lamb described how, for two and a half hours, without air support, they were under fire, shot at from all directions by RPG, Kalashnikov and other weapons. The soldiers discussed among themselves whether to save bullets for themselves if it was inevitable. Lamb was also asked if she could use a pistol. Fortunately, they still managed to escape.

In 2013 she wrote Malala Yousafzai's autobiography: I am Malala: The girl the Taliban wanted to shoot because she is fighting for the right to an education . In the same year, Lamb joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a Wilson Center Global Fellow . In her latest book, Farewell Kabul , she tells details from Afghanistan and Pakistan, with stories about the war and the missed opportunities on the part of the US and its bad relationship with Pakistan. It explains the problems with terrorism in the region, if not the world.

Memberships

Lamb is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting .

Awards

bibliography

  • Waiting for Allah: Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991; London: Penguin, 1992).
  • The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (London: Viking, 1999; London: Penguin, 2000).
  • The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan years (London: HarperCollins, 2002; London: Flamingo, 2003).
  • House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe (London: HarperPress, 2007).
  • Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands (London: HarperPress, 2008).
  • Together with Malala Yousafzai : I am Malala: the girl who the Taliban wanted to shoot because she is fighting for the right to an education . Knaur, Munich 2014, ISBN 3-426-27629-1 .
  • Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World (London: William Collins, 2015).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bentham: Pakistan expels our foreign correspondent . In: The Telegraph , November 11, 2001. 
  2. ↑ Malala Yousafzai: 'It's hard to kill. Maybe that's why his hand was shaking ' The Guardian, October 7, 2013
  3. ^ Asia Program Welcomes Global Fellow Christina Lamb . Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. November 12, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ Book Details: Farewell Kabul - Christina Lamb - eBook
  5. ^ About IWPR - Institute for War and Peace Reporting . Retrieved June 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lamb, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK