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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Brent Huffman

Medill professor Brent Huffman discusses his award-winning film ‘Saving Mes Aynak’

January 24, 2016

Poring over National Geographic magazines and dreaming of adventure while growing up in small-town Ohio, Medill Prof. Brent Huffman never imagined he would be making repeated trips into Taliban-controlled...

Hejaze: Don’t let the wounds of Peshawar attack blur your judgment

Hejaze: Don’t let the wounds of Peshawar attack blur your judgment

February 4, 2015

December 16, 2014: The Taliban gunned down 152 people, 133 of whom were children, at Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. I stayed in bed that day. I was back home in Lahore for Winter Break. I...

Robert Nickelsberg, photojournalist for TIME Magazine, signs copies of his new book after giving a presentation at Northwestern on photography and Afghanistan. Nickelsberg’s book, Afghanistan: A Distant War, features his photography of the region.

Veteran photojournalist shares experiences working in Afghanistan

January 14, 2014

After his photographs sat for years in a trunk and file cabinet, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg compiled a book documenting his experiences in Afghanistan from 1988 to 2013. Nickelsberg recounted...

Letter to the Editor: With death of Anne Smedinghoff, America is a little poorer

April 28, 2013

Sometime earlier this month we awoke to the news that one of the five Americans killed April 6 in Afghanistan was a 25-year-old woman, Anne Smedinghoff, from River Forest. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University,...

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