American journalist and author
Deborah Scroggins (November 27, 1961 inAtlanta, Georgia ) is an American journalist and author. She heads theResearch and Analysis Directorate ,Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction .[ 1]
Deborah Lane Scroggins[ 2] Atlanta, Georgia ,[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Scroggins graduated in the Class of 1978 atChamblee High School .[ 2]
She is a graduate ofTulane University , B.A., 1982 andColumbia University , Master of International Affairs,[ 6] [ 5]
Scroggins received theITT International Fellowship ,Institute of International Education , 1982-1983, for a year of independent study, in Denmark.
She was a free-lance writer, forInter Press Service , 1984-1985. She was an editor,United Nations Association of New York , in New York City, 1985-1987.[ 5]
She was a reporter and editor for theAtlanta Journal-Constitution [ 3] [ 1] [ 1]
She has written forGranta ,The Independent ,The Sunday Times Magazine ,Vogue and other publications.[ 1]
Colin Campbell[ 7] The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1988, from theOverseas Press Club of America , for "The Famine Weapon in the Horn of Africa".[ 8]
She won Georgia Author of the Year, 2003,[ 2] [ 9] Overseas Press Club Awards, aSigma Delta Chi Award, and theRobert F. Kennedy Award for her coverage of Africa and Asia, including Afghanistan.[ 1]
Her bookEmma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] Emma McCune , a British aid worker who marriedSudanese warlordRiek Machar . It won the 2003Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling .[ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
DirectorTony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated thatNicole Kidman would star as McCune.[ 17] project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012; its fate following Scott's death remains unclear.[ 18]
Scroggins has also written a second book:Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui ,[ 19] militant Islam movement through the lives of two women on opposite sides of the spectrum:Ayaan Hirsi Ali andAafia Siddiqui .[ 20] [ 21] [ 22] [ 23]
Scroggins married Colin Campbell,[ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] [ 5] [ 5] [ 31]
^a b c d e "Deborah Scroggins - Director of Research and Analysis" .Leadership .SIGAR .mil. Archived fromthe original on June 5, 2024. Retrieved2 August 2024 .^a b c "Deborah Lane Scroggins, Class of 1978" .Hall of Fame 2013 .Chamblee High School Blue & Gold Foundation. Retrieved2 August 2024 .^a b "Deborah Scroggins."Contemporary Authors Online . Detroit: Gale, 2007. ^ "Frank Scroggins Obituary" .Legacy.com . 13 August 2010. Retrieved2 August 2024 .^a b c d e Deborah Scroggins 1961- atEncyclopedia.com ^ "Master of International Affairs" .School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Campbell, Colin (7 August 1994)."ON LANGUAGE; Bluespeak" .The New York Times . Archived fromthe original on February 18, 2011. Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ "The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1988" .Overseas Press Club of America . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ "2006 Winners & Finalists" .Georgia Author of the Year Awards . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Bedell, Geraldine (9 March 2003)."A good woman in Africa" .The Observer . Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Griswold, Eliza (27 January 2012)."Book Review: Islam and the West Through the Eyes of Two Women" .The New York Times . Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ "EMMA'S WAR" .Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Goldberg, Michelle (12 December 2002)." .Salon.com . Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Ridenhour Prize bio ^ SIPA Alumna Deborah Scroggins Wins Ron Ridenhour Truth-telling Award ,Columbia News ^ "Deborah Scroggins" .Ridenhour Prizes . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Scroggins, Deborah (26 October 2007)."Beyond Darfur there is the plight of southern Sudan" .independent.co.uk . Retrieved2 August 2024 .Deborah Scroggins is the author of 'Emma's War' (Harper Collins), which tells the story of a British aid worker who married a southern Sudanese rebel, and is now being made into a film ^ "South Sudan's rivals, Kiir and Machar" .sgYahoo News .AFP News . 16 August 2015. Retrieved2 August 2024 .Their love story was told in the book "Emma's War" by journalist Deborah Scroggins, a tale once touted in Hollywood as possible film material. ^ Scroggins, Deborah (2012).Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui ISBN 9780062097958 ^ Foster, Jordan (October 14, 2011)."Muslim Women's Rights: Two Views: PW Talks with Deborah Scroggins" .Publishers Weekly . Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Roberts, Andrew (February 2, 2012)."British Historian Andrew Roberts Reviews Deborah Scroggins' 'Wanted Women' .Tablet Magazine . Archived fromthe original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Ahmed, Akbar (February 6, 2012)."After Words: Deborah Scroggins, "Wanted Women," hosted by Akbar Ahmed, American University" .YouTube BookTV . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Rhone, Nedra (February 17, 2012)."Author explores lives of wanted women in war on terror" .Atlanta Journal-Constitution the original on 2 August 2024. Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Campbell, Colin (15 October 1985)."PRESS COVERAGE CRITICIZED IN DISASTER IN PUERTO RICO" .The New York Times . Archived fromthe original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ "A City in Full: Venerable, Impatient Atlanta" .archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Campbell, Colin (14 January 1994)."Opinion - Ghostly Residents Protest in Atlanta" .The New York Times . Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ "Colin Campbell" .The New Republic . Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ "Colin Campbell: Sturgis Library's Idea Man for the Vonnegut Festival" .CapeCod.com . 3 October 2014. Retrieved2 August 2024 .^ Edelstein, Ken (August 25, 2004)."Up with Gwinnett, down with columnists at the AJC" .Creative Loafing . Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Campbell, Colin."From 2001: My family tree" .Atlanta Journal-Constitution the original on August 16, 2021. Retrieved2 August 2024 . ^ Cater, Eleanor (February 24, 2012)."Time Out" .bizjournals.com . Retrieved2 August 2024 .
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