Anna Badkhen

Kael Alford

About The Author

Anna Badkhen was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States in 2004. She began covering conflicts in 2001 and has written about people in extremis from four continents for Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Times, and other publications. Her wartime reporting won the 2007 Joel R. Seldin Award for reporting on civilians in war zones from Psychologists for Social Responsibility. She lives in Philadelphia.

Books by Anna Badkhen

Peace Meals

Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories

By Anna Badkhen
Travel books bring us to places. War books bring us to tragedy. This book brings us to one woman’s travels in war zones: the locals she met, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.

Peace Meals is a true story about conflict and food. It illustrates the m...
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