Aftermath: A Discussion with Nir Rosen

Nir Rosen is a writer, journalist, film-maker and Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. He has spent over 36 months working in occupied Iraq, four months in Afghanistan and has also worked in Somalia, the Congo, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon, where he lives with his wife and son. His work has been published by the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker Magazine, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone Magazine, and similar publications. He has filmed for several documentaries. One of them, “No End in Sight,” about the occupation of Iraq, recently won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His book on Iraq, “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq,” was published by Free Press in 2006 and is being released as an updated paperback in the spring of 2008. His next book, on Iraq and the impact of the US war on the region will be released in late 2008. Rosen recently returned from three months in Baghdad where he filmed a documentary for British Channel 4. He is a frequent guest on CNN, CNN International, al-Jazeera International and various other television and radio shows.