Nina Burleigh

Sexual Violence and Women in Revolution

2012-01-26T13:57:43Z

For the Daily Beast, here, a story about how sexual violence has been a tool to keep women silent, and how the greatest step forward for women in Egypt has been taken by a few brave souls who have stood up and talked about it, publicly.

Taking Italian Justice on The Digital Age

2012-01-26T13:49:17Z

I talked with NY attorney Jim Zirin for half an hour about Italian justice and Amanda Knox. View it here.

The Bioethicist

2012-01-25T22:35:12Z

I profiled lawyer Lori Andrews, the leading expert on bioethics and new technology. She's been hard at work fighting big Pharma on the patenting of DNA, a case that probably heads to the Supreme Court next year. The story here.

Sitting with a Salafi

2012-01-25T22:31:08Z

Here, for Time.com, an interview with Egypt's Nour Party spokesman, in which we debate the veil, and I get to ruminate on how the common ideal of covered, not to say, erased women, could be the path to peace between the religious parties in Israel and the newly democratic Arab neighbors.

An Interview with One of the Muslim Brotherhood's Sisters

2012-01-25T22:26:55Z

I talked with a number of the sisters of the Brotherhood while I was in Egypt.
Here, a story for Slate on one of them.

A Christmas Story, 2011

2011-12-29T00:21:53Z

Out on the Corniche, beyond the ruined art deco beachfront high-rises -- lodging rats now, not VIPs -- you can rent a bike. No one seemed to have a map, but the mid-December sun was warm and it seemed a shame not to pedal along the seashore on my free afternoon.

A Christmas story for the LATimes, here it is.

First, let's abort all the Females

2011-12-16T16:28:33Z

First, let's abort all the Females

2011-12-13T12:20:40Z

The systematic aborting of female fetuses in India leaves entire towns male-only.
ABC's 20/20 and Elizabeth Vargas have done an amazing piece on this utterly revolting spectacle.

The Italian Jobs

2011-11-06T14:44:30Z

I spent the Ferragosto week, Italy's big summer holiday, in Prato, interviewing Chinese workers and entrepreneurs who have come to Prato, Italy's historic textile producing city, and taken over a sector of the fashion industry. The whole feature is here, in Businessweek.

Italian Haunts: A Gothic Tour of Italy

2011-10-30T19:32:37Z

Image by Curious Expeditions via Flickr

Visitors to Italy tend to seek its sunny, Dionysian side -- vino, pasta, opera, Renaissance art, George Clooney on a Vespa. But, like a chilly draft on a hot day, Italy's gothic angle offers intimations of darkness that make a moment on the piazza even more delicious. Consciously or not, anyone sipping prosecco at sunset in Rome or Naples savors an extra spoon of dolce in their vita thanks to the contrast between the beauty of the present and the proximity of catacombs, ruins and sites of ancient suffering.
Read the rest of the article in the New York Times.

In Dixie, Civil Rights for Zygotes

2011-10-20T15:42:56Z

Rebecca Kiessling embodies the right-wing female firebrand in all the clichéd ways. She has long, straight blonde hair, a law degree, and bears a resemblance to Anne Coulter. She's married, a home-schooling mother of five, and vehemently pro-life. What sets her apart though, and what has made her the optimal spokeswoman for radical pro-lifers in the abortion wars, is that she is a daughter of rape, conceived when her biological mother was abducted at knifepoint in 1968. She likes to point out that she has spent her 41 years on this earth only because abortion was illegal in the state of Michigan that year. Her mother went to two back-alley abortionists before being forced, because of the law, to carry Rebecca (whom she gave up for adoption but recently re-adopted) to term.
Read the rest of the story here at TIME.

On the Rightwing

2011-10-20T15:12:05Z

Down in DC, with the rightwing fringe and Ronald Reagan's ghost, for the Brits.

Feature in The New York Times

2011-10-18T13:05:31Z

The New York Times ran a feature on me and the book. It was nice to be noticed by the paper of record, I don't agree that I was an "advocate" for thoroughly investigating the story and they picked a screen shot from the day when it was 108 in NYC and I had a 2-hairspray-can updo, so I'm attaching a better tv picture here to make me feel better.

Talking to The Takeaway

2011-10-18T12:52:44Z

I talked with John Hockenberry and co. on New York's NPR here.

ON CBS 48 HOURS

2011-10-12T12:34:26Z

I participated a little bit in this project, and you can watch the excellent CBS investigation here.

Big props to Susan Zirinsky and producers Doug Longhini and Sara Ely Hulse, and Peter Van Sant, for the work they did bringing to light the problems in the Amanda Knox case early on. More than anyone, these professionals laid the groundwork for really investigating the case.

Bravo to all.