Is It More Dangerous than Ever to Be a Female War Reporter?

Sebba, who is the author of a history of women reporters called Battling for News, told the Atlantic’s Emily Chertoff: ”A lot of these conflicts are now in Muslim countries, who see Western women wearing provocative—that’s their word, not mine—provocative clothes, and therefore, they feel, the West has to be taught a lesson, that they’re fair targets, fair game.”