Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk
Joris Luyendijk in 2006
Born	Joris Luyendijk (1971-12-30) 30 December 1971 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Residence	London, England, UK
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Occupation	Author, journalist, talk show host
Years active	1998–present
Website
www.jorisluyendijk.nl

Joris Luyendijk (born 30 December 1971) is a Dutch non-fiction author, news correspondent, and talk show host.

Biography

Joris Luyendijk was born on 30 December 1971 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He lived in Hilversum from the age of 5.

Luyendijk studied in Kansas, Amsterdam, and Cairo. He earned his Master's degree equivalent "doctoraal" degree in Cairo. His first book Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw (1998, A good man sometimes hits his wife) is about the Egyptian society from a Western observer's point of view.

He eventually became a news correspondent for various Netherlands-based media organisations in the Middle East for a number of years. He was based in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories. He also reported on the Second Gulf War in Iraq. His book Het zijn net mensen (2006, They are just like people) is a report of his experiences as a news correspondent in the Middle East, and quickly became a bestseller in the Netherlands. The book has since been translated and published in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Australia, the US, France and Slovenia,^[1] and is scheduled to be released in the UK and Lebanon. The title in English is Fit to Print (Australia), Hello, Everybody! (UK) or People Like Us (US).

In People Like Us, Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East. He chronicles first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation, terror, and war. His stories cast light on a number of major crises, from the Iraq War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with less-reported issues such as underage orphan trash-collectors in Cairo. The more he witnessed, the less he understood, and he became increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he saw on the ground and what was later reported in the media.

Joris Luyendijk giving a talk at a TEDx conference in Amsterdam in 2011

From 2006, Joris Luyendijk was living in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2006 and 2007 he carried out interviews for the talk show Zomergasten (Summer Guests) on VPRO. From January 2010, he held the Leonardo Chair at the University of Tilburg, and taught the masterclass “Journalism for the 21st Century”.^{[citation needed]} Luyendijk studied Arabic in Amsterdam and Cairo, though he does not speak the language fluently.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2010 Joris Luyendijk was asked to shadow the Dutch Parliament and government in The Hague for a month, resulting in a book on Dutch politics, titled ‘Je hebt het niet van mij, maar...' ("It’s not coming from me, but...'). Since 2011 Luyendijk is based in London where he works for The Guardian. His blogs provide an anthropological perspective on the ways of the financial world: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog. In Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad en De Standaard Luyendijk comments weekly on his life in the City.

Bibliography

• 1998: Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw
• 2001: Een tipje van de sluier (Islam voor beginners)
• 2006: Het zijn net mensen (Beelden uit het Midden-Oosten), translated into English as People like us: Misrepresenting the Middle East (UK, 2009), Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East (Australia, 2009), and Hello Everybody!: One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East (USA, 2010)
• 2008: Het maakbare nieuws (Antwoord op Joris Luyendijk) (co-operation)
• 2010: Je hebt het niet van mij, maar... (Een maand aan het binnenhof)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joris Luyendijk.

• Joris Luyendijk, official website
• The Joris Luyendijk banking blog at The Guardian