Ben Taub
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Ben Taub is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Since 2015, he has written for the magazine about jihadism, crime, conflict, climate change, exploration, and human rights, on four continents and at sea. His works have won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Magazine Award, two consecutive George Polk Awards, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, two Overseas Press Club Awards, and other honors, and have appeared in recent editions of The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Travel Writing.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has supported several of his most ambitious projects, including on war crimes in Syria, sex-trafficking across the Sahara, atrocities in Iraq, and the vanishing traditional ways of life in the most remote village in Greenland.
