Jenna Krajeski
2016
Freelance Writer, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate.com
The impact of 9/11 on African American Muslims Judge
Jenna Krajeski is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker and Harper's, among other publications. From March 2010 though June 2011, she edited the Culture section of the English-language Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm (later the Egypt Independent) and contributed coverage of the 2011 Egyptian revolution to The New Yorker, Slate.com and Al-Masry Al-Youm. Later that year she moved to Istanbul where she began reporting on Turkey's embattled Kurdish minority with grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, eventually expanding her work on Kurdish issues into Iraq and Syria. Prior to relocating to Cairo, she worked as an associate editor in the The New Yorker's poetry department.