After the Janjaweed | The Common Review
I interned in the summer of 2006 at the Great Books Foundation as an editorial intern for their journal, the Common Review. On my first day, at our editorial board meeting, I learned that a contributor had produced a piece on Darfuri refugees in Cairo who had been beaten and killed by police during a nonviolent protest outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This was a fascinating and timely piece, but the author's factual statements weren't sourced and the background she provided about the conflict in Darfur was confusing and incomplete.
My first task for the summer was clear -- I had the pleasure of researching, fact-checking, editing, rewriting and proofreading this piece. I relied on news databases, academic journals, the friendly librarians at Harold Washington Library in Chicago and the occasional email to halfway across the world to flesh out and firm up the article.
View the author's submitted article here, and the final version after editing here.
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