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Najeebah Al-Ghadban

Select Work

“No choice but to do it” The Appeal, The New Republic 

“Confinement and Contagion” The New York Review of Books

“The Evidence Against Her” Type Investigations, GEN, Reportagen

“Kelly Harnett Had to Get Free” New York Magazine 

“Death of a Survivor” The New Republic 

“A Culture of No” VQR

“You descend into hell by coming here” The Guardian

“Rosi’s Choice” VQR 

“The Odd Couple” The Guardian 

“Portrait of a Township” Harper’s

“After Truth and Reconciliation? Their lives.” New York Times

“Punished for pushing back” The Guardian

“A South African novelist recalls the sister she couldn’t save” New York Times

“At a law firm that defended a child murderer, an intern recalls her own abuse” New York Times

Book

We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation, Random House 2016