Rukmini Callimachi: On ISIS
Rukmini Callimachi is a New York Times foreign correspondent who has covered Al Qaida and ISIS since 2014. Earlier this year, she rose to international acclaim with Caliphate, a chart-topping podcast. The Times first documentary audio series, it follows the journalist deep into the heart of the terrorist network and into the lives of violent extremists and their victims.
Most coverage of ISIS doesn’t even try to hear the other side, because people believe their crimes make them akin to monsters. I believe in listening to and trying to understand the enemy, which is different from giving them a platform.
Chaired by Hamish MacDonald, Australian journalist and broadcaster.
This conversation was recorded live on stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2018.
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Hamish MacDonald and Rukmini Callimachi
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Hamish MacDonald and Rukmini Callimachi
Hamish Macdonald
Hamish Macdonald is host of The Project on Paramount/Ten and a host of Global Roaming on ABC RN. Outside of Australia he has worked for Channel 4 News in the UK, Al Jazeera English and America's ABC where he was International Affairs Correspondent. He has won numerous awards including a Walkley for current affairs journalism and was named Young Journalist of the Year by Britain's Royal Television Society. In 2016 he became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Hamish has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, the nuclear disaster in Japan, uprisings in Hong Kong and Egypt, the London bombings and the rise of ISIS.
