Joshua Hammer
Joshua Hammer was named Africa Bureau Chief,
Correspondent-at-Large in August 2005, after serving as a
Nieman Fellow at Harvard for a year. Previously, Hammer was
Jerusalem bureau chief since 2001. He was at the forefront
of Newsweek's coverage of the uprising in the Middle
East and the mounting violence between Israelis and
Palestinians. He contributed almost weekly articles to both
the domestic and international issues on the ever-changing
situation. His drive to get the story resulted in his
kidnapping in June of 2001. "We've Been Kidnapped," a
recount of the episode appeared in the magazine and on the
Web site once he was safely in Jerusalem. His reporting led to countless TV and radio appearances in
the U.S. and internationally. His Middle East coverage
culminated in a recent cover story on April 15, 2002,
"Suicide Mission: A Human Bomb and Her Victim--How Two Teens
Lived--And Died," the harrowing tale of the lives of the two
teens, and how the violence directly affected them. That
story, along with two others he wrote, "39 Days in
Bethlehem" (May 20, 2002), and "Code Blue in Jerusalem"
(July 1, 2002), earned him a prestigious reporting
nomination from the National Magazine Awards. Hammer's
recent reporting has also included coverage of the war on
terror. He has covered terrorist networks from Afghanistan
to India and Pakistan and has contributed to several cover
stories since Sept.11 on the hunt for Osama bin Laden and
the Al Qaeda network. Hammer was Berlin bureau chief from December 1999-2001. From
there, he also covered the Balkans region and was present
for the historical fall from power of Yugoslav strongman
Slobodan Milosevic. The uprising of the people, which led
to Milosevic's downfall, was captured in Hammer's in-depth
cover story on October 16, 2000, "Yugoslavia: People Power
-- The Last Days of a Dictator." Before Berlin, Hammer served as Los Angeles bureau chief
since 1997, directing the magazine's coverage of the West
coast. And prior to that, he was Buenos Aires bureau chief
from Jan.-Nov. 1997, focusing on coverage of Central America
and South America. He also served as Nairobi bureau chief
since August 1993, and was one of Newsweek's key
correspondents covering the civil war and mass exodus in
Rwanda and the continuing violence in Somalia. Hammer
joined Newsweek as a general editor in the Business
section in August 1988. Prior to joining Newsweek, Hammer worked at several
prestigious magazines. From 1985 to 1986, he was a
contributing editor at Manhattan, Inc. Hammer has
written articles for The New York Times Magazine,
Esquire, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, GQ
and Premiere magazine. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Princeton
University in 1979. He has worked as an English teacher and
film critic in Japan and as a freelance writer while
traveling throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and South America.
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Books:Yokohama Burning, September 2006
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