Carmel DeAmicis

Carmel DeAmicis

Carmel DeAmicis joined The Nation as an intern in January 2011 after working as a news reporter for a Dubai-based television station that broadcasts across the Middle East and North Africa. She is a 2009 graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied Language and Identity and wrote a weekly opinion column for the Daily Californian.

Analysis

The Scars on American Soil

The wartime journalist is a curious creature. He or she must stomach devastation and turn it into digestible fodder for the outside world. “War was unbearable for me,” the legendary documentary photographer Eugene Richards said at an event in Manhattan earlier this month. “I hated that I was earning my living from it. I had to stop.”