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Revision as of 00:47, 31 January 2010 by Redthoreau (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 339670253 by Prodego (talk) restoring link as a result of ANI and agreement from Prodego)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Nir Rosen (born 1977 in New York City) is an Iranian American journalist and a chronicler of the Iraq War. Rosen writes on current and international affairs.
Rosen is best known for his writings on the rise of violence in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, which form the basis of his first book, In the Belly of the Green Bird (2006). He spent more than two years in Iraq reporting on the Coalition occupation, the relationship between Americans and Iraqis, the development of postwar Iraqi religious and political movements, inter-ethnic and sectarian relations, and the Iraqi civil war.
He regularly contributes to leading periodicals, such as Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Review, and Harper's. He contributed to the footage of Iraq in Charles Ferguson's documentary No End In Sight and was also interviewed for the film.
Nir Rosen is a fellow at the New York University Center on Law and Security, and a former fellow of the New America Foundation. In September 2007, he was the C.V. Starr Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin.
He was invited to speak to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2008 about the present state of Iraq.
Bibliography
- Books
- Rosen, Nir. In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq, New York: Free Press, 2006. ISBN 0-7432-7703-1
- Articles
- Rosen, Nir. "If America Left Iraq: The case for cutting and running" The Atlantic Monthly (December 2005).
- Rosen, Nir. "Anatomy of a Civil War: Iraq's descent into chaos", Boston Review (November/December, 2006)
- Rosen, Nir. "Nir Rosen on Iraq’s descent into civil war: 'This is a U.S. crime'". Socialist Worker (December 8, 2006 | Pages 6 and 7)
- Rosen, Nir. "The Flight from Iraq", New York Times Magazine (May 13, 2007)
- Rosen, Nir. "Riding Shotgun With Our Shadow Army in Iraq", Mother Jones (May/June 2007)
- Rosen, Nir. "Al Qaeda in Lebanon: The Iraq war spreads" Boston Review (January/February 2008)
- Rosen, Nir. "The Myth of the Surge" Rolling Stone (March 2008)
- Rosen, Nir. "How we lost the war we won", Rolling Stone (October 2008)
- Roesn, Nir. "Gaza: the logic of colonial power", The Guardian (December 2008)
Critical reception
- Xenakis, Nicholas J. "T for Terrorist," The National Interest, Vol. 84 (Summer 2006). pp. 134-138.
External links
- Rosen's personal website
- "In the Lair of the Taliban", Rolling Stone / The Times
- Text and video of Interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Nir Rosen's embedded journalism with the Taliban
- Nir Rosen discusses his article "The Flight from Iraq" with Charles Goyette (MP3)
- Nir Rosen critiques War on Terror at Harvard Law School, reported in the Harvard Law Record
- PBS News Hour transcript: "As Violence Peaks and Dips, Debate Over 'Surge' Persists" (March 11, 2008)
- Nir Rosen: "We Managed to Make the Taliban Look Good" - video report by Democracy Now!