Jon Lee Anderson has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998 and is one of the leading chroniclers of war and political transition. He has reported from conflict zones across the world, including Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Angola, Somalia and Lebanon, and has also produced extensive work from Latin America, including profiles of figures such as Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and Gabriel García Márquez. His books include To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Guerrillas, The Fall of Baghdad, and The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. He has received numerous international reporting awards, including the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and has been writing from the field since beginning his career in Peru in 1979.

Tamana Ayazi is an Emmy-winning filmmaker, journalist, and National Geographic Explorer whose work centres on resilience, culture, and human rights. Her films include the Academy Award–winning Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), Where the Light Shines, One Bullet, and the Emmy-winning feature In Her Hands. In 2021, she collaborated with Amnesty International on Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule, documenting the impact of Taliban rule on women and girls. She is also a recipient of the Cinema for Peace Dove Award for Women’s Empowerment.

Saima Mohsin is a Sky News presenter. Before joining Sky, Saima worked as an international correspondent at the BBC, CNN, ITV, PBS Newshour and Channel 4, reporting from across the world on stories including the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, missing plane MH370, the Rohingya crisis and the Brussels terror attacks.

This event is in collaboration with Pranvera Shema Smith, founder of On Front Line.