The past sixteen years have seen western interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya lead to endless war while non-intervention in Syria has seen hundreds of thousands killed and millions flee in the world's greatest humanitarian crisis. The refugee crisis in Europe has brought these wars to our shores.

In the Tans Lecture 2017 Christina Lamb will talk about covering these issues as a female war correspondent, finding inspirational people like Malala and Nujeen, who crossed from Aleppo to Cologne in a wheelchair, and why Christina Lamb believes it matters to tell these stories.
 

Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author. She is known for the bestseller I Am Malala, co-written with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist the youngest Nobel Prize laureate (2014) and the book Nujeen, the Girl from Aleppo,  published in 2016

Christina Lamb has reported from most of the world’s hotspots starting with Afghanistan after an unexpected wedding invitation led her to Karachi in 1987 when she was just 22. She moved to Peshawar to cover the mujaheddin fighting the Soviet Union.

Lamb has won 14 major awards including ‘Young Journalist of the Year’, ‘Foreign Correspondent of the Year’ (five times) and Europe’s top war reporting prize, the ‘Prix Bayeux.’ She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire / OBE by the Queen in 2013 and is an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford.

Currently she is Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times as well as a Global Fellow for the Wilson Centre for International Affairs in Washington DC. Christina has been based in Islamabad and Rio de Janeiro for the Financial Times and Johannesburg and Washington for the Sunday Times. She is on the boards of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and Afghan Connection.

Besides the books mentioned above she has written (a.o.) The Africa House, Farewell Kabul, Small Wars Permitting and Waiting for Allah.

More information: http://www.christinalamb.net/

The Tans Lecture is organised every year to honour dr. J. Tans (1912-1993), the founding father of Maastricht University.