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Naomi KleinFellow
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 20 languages to date. Its six-minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded more than a million times. Her previous book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was also an international bestseller, translated into more than 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (Picador) was published in 2002. Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper's magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina's occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute's Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia.
For more information, visit her website, naomiklein.org.
Selected Articles and Appearances:
Naomi Klein on Democracy Now! Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion Obama's Chicago Boys Regime-Quakes in Burma and China Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not A Smear Disowned By The Ownership Society Push-button policing: Why talk when you can shock?
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Salvation BoulevardA novel
From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write." Read glowing reviews of the book in the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Diego Union Tribune. More Clive Stafford Smith on PBS DocumentaryOctober 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
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