Raffi Khatchadourian
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2005
- Affiliation during program:
- The New Yorker
- Country:
- Algeria
- Year:
- 2005
- Email:
- [email protected]
Raffi Khatchadourian is a staff fact-checker for The New Yorker magazine. Before arriving at The New Yorker in 2003, he wrote a five-part series for the Village Voice on the construction of oil pipeline through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. As a freelancer, he has contributed to The Nation, Conde Nast Traveler, Smithsonian magazine, Salon.com, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2001, during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, he reported for the Chronicle and The Nation from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. He began his career in journalism at The Russia Journal, an English-language weekly based in Moscow, where he worked as chief copy editor, and wrote editorials and news stories. He earned a B.A. from Trinity College, in Hartford, and a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University.
Stories
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Blowback in Africa
Ever since Chad gained independence 46 years ago, it has been a world-class model of political dysfunction. In the 1970s, Chad's president, François Tombalbaye, compelled ...
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War in the Greatest Desert, Part Two of Two: Arming the ‘Camel Corps’
In April 2004, while MDJT rebels kept Saifi handcuffed in a small cave near one of their mountain encampments, General Wald gave a talk at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) ...
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War in the Greatest Desert, Part One of Two: Hunting Ammari Saifi
In the early months of 2004, a lone convoy of Toyota pickup trucks and SUVs raced eastward across the southern extremities of the Sahara. The convoy, led by a wanted Islamic ...
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