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DEBORAH 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
and other publications. She has won three National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence and has guest lectured at Harvard, Berkeley and Zayed University in Dubai. She teaches at the University of British Columbia.
www.​deborahcampbell.​org