Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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At "The Post" he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

His first book is "" published in 2006, which won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. It is currently being made into a film, written and directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon.

Bibliography

*"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" (Knopf, 2006) ISBN-10: 1400044871

External links

* [http://www.rajivc.com/ Official page]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/fba2007/story/0,,2212412,00.html Interview with The Guardian]


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