Dutch journalist Thomas Rueb talks about his creative process on recreating the story of Laura H. for his book and podcast. In the summer of 2016 a young woman is found outside the caliphate of Islamic State, running through the desert with two small children. She says she wants to go back to the Netherlands. However, Laura is arrested at Schiphol Airport. She is said to have been sent by IS to commit an attack.
Rueb followed Laura’s trail into Iraq for his book Laura’s trail. He reconstructed her version of the story, her gruesome life in the caliphate and her return surrounded by inquiries from media, justice and the dutch people. So far more than 10,000 copies of Laura H. have been sold.
Thomas Rueb wrote the award winning non-fiction book Laura H, about a young women escaping the caliphate of the Islamic State. He works for dutch newspaper NRC, writes books and is a podcast maker. He worked together with Belgium audio collective Schik on a podcast on the women from his book: Laura H.
This talk is part of the True Stories conference 2019 organised by the Narrative Journalism Foundation at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam.
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21 сен 2024
