Co-sponsored by Yale University Chaplain’s Office
About the Speakers
Scott Anderson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author, most recently, of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times literary critic Janet Maslin called it ‘‘superbly fine-tuned’’ and an ‘‘original, illuminating history that requires and rewards close attention.’’ Anderson was raised in East Asia and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In his 33 years as a war correspondent, he has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Sudan.
Ben C. Solomon (born 1987), is an American video journalist and filmmaker who reports for The New York Times. In 2015, he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times reporters working in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. He has reported from numerous war zones, including Syria, Libya, and Ukraine.