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Saki Knafo

Crime

A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Were His Methods His Own Undoing?

In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.

Saki Knafo New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 35min Permalink

Science

The Last Whale Hunt for a Vanishing Alaskan Village

A story from the end of the earth.

Saki Knafo Men's Journal Oct 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

A Black Police Officer’s Fight Against the N.Y.P.D.

Was Edwin Raymond punished for not meeting quotas?

Saki Knafo New York Times Magazine Feb 2016 25min Permalink

Travel

Operation Iraqi Vacation

From the Tower of Babel to the birthplace of Abraham, from Saddam’s ruined palaces to fortified blast-proof checkpoints, a diary from a nine-day, eight-night tour of Mespotamia/Iraq.

Saki Knafo GQ Apr 2011 20min Permalink

Best Article Arts Business Music

Orientalist Party Music

In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.

Saki Knafo The Believer Jul 2010 10min Permalink