Michael Petrou, a 2018 Nieman Fellow, is a historian and journalist who has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of “Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War” and “Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World.”
Currently, he is Historian of the Veterans’ Experience at the Canadian War Museum, where he is leading In Their Own Voices, an oral history project that explores how war and military services have shaped the lives of veterans and their loved ones, and how those veterans in turn have shaped Canada.
