Deborah Campbell, 2008 Magazine Award Winner

Deborah Campbell is the author of A Disappearance in Damascus, which won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and the Hubert Evans Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Screen rights have been optioned by filmmaker Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, In the Name of the Father). Her previous book, This Heated Place, was a Lonely Planet recommended read.

Deborah's Greber Award winning article, entitled Exodus: Where will Iraq Go Next? was published in the April 2008 issue of Harper's Magazine. The article is based on the two months she spent living among Iraqi refugees in Syria. The article is considered one of the most comprehensive accounts of the human story behind the ongoing Iraqi refugee crisis.

Deborah studied history, political science, languages and Near East Religions at universities on four continents. An adjunct professor of literary nonfiction at the University of British Columbia, she is currently teaching creative nonfiction writing to graduate students. Deborah is a founding member of the FCC literary journalism collective.

Campbell’s work has been published in seven languages and 11 countries. Places she has written about include Iran, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Mexico, Cuba and Russia. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian and Foreign Policy. She is the recipient of three National Magazine Awards, and in 2017 received the Freedom to Read Award for her body of work. Campbell has lectured at Harvard, Berkeley, Zayed University in Dubai, and the National Press Club in Washington. She is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.

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