Washington Post editor's Iraq book launch September 20, 2006

Talk and book signing by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Post and author of:
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE IRAQ'S GREEN ZONE
Wednesday, September 20th
5:00 to 6:30pm
Kenney Auditorium
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
The Johns Hopkins University
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf describes Chandrasekaran's new book as follows:
"An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq ... Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America ... Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents, Chandrasekaran tells the story of the people and ideas that inhabited the Green Zone during the occupation, from the imperial viceroy L. Paul Bremer III to the fleet of twentysomethings hired to implement the idea that Americans could build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern country."
The event is free and open to the public but seating is limited. Please RSVP to 663-7726 or irp@jhu.edu.

Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor for continuous news at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.
Sponsored by the International Reporting Project at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
www.internationalreportingproject.org

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