BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-18661352
SEQUENCE:18735056
CREATED:20101014T175300Z
DESCRIPTION:“For Americans, the story of U.S. military involvement in the Islamic 
 world centers on ‘us’ not ‘them,’ with Afghans and Iraqis cast as 
 victims or bystanders. In this brilliantly reported and deeply humane book, 
 Nir Rosen demolishes this self-serving picture, depicting the relationship 
 between the occupied and the occupiers in all its nuanced complexity.”  
 —ANDREW J. BACEVICH, author of Washington Rules\n\n"A searing, first-hand 
 account of the consequences of America's "war on terrorism" by one of the 
 most respected voices on the Middle East. Honest, fearless, devastating. No 
 one but Nir Rosen could have written this book."\n           —REZA ASLAN, 
 author of No god but God and Beyond Fundamentalism. \n\n“Nir Rosen has 
 almost single handedly rescued the name of journalism in the Middle East 
 from a class of reporters who function as courtiers and propagandists for 
 the military and our political elite.  Rosen's fierce independence and 
 honesty, as well as an ability to see the wars we are fighting from all 
 sides, make his book exceptional for its nuance, complexity and insight 
 into our bloody march through the Muslim world.” \n                       
   —CHRIS HEDGES, author of Empire of Illusion\nNir Rosen’s AFTERMATH, 
 an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of 
 radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the 
 ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world.\n\nRosen—who the 
 Weekly Standard once bitterly complained has “great access to the 
 Baathists and jihadists who make up the Iraqi insurgency”— has spent 
 nearly a decade among warriors and militants who have been challenging 
 American power in the Muslim world. In AFTERMATH, he tells their story, 
 showing the other side of the U.S. war on terror, traveling from the 
 battle-scarred streets of Baghdad to the alleys, villages, refugee camps, 
 mosques, and killing grounds of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and finally 
 Afghanistan, where Rosen has a terrifying encounter with the Taliban as 
 their “guest,” and witnesses the new Obama surge fizzling in southern 
 Afghanistan.\n\nRosen was one of the few Westerners to venture inside the 
 mosques of Baghdad to witness the first stirrings of sectarian hatred in 
 the months after the U.S. invasion. He shows how weapons, tactics, and 
 sectarian ideas from the civil war in Iraq penetrated neighboring countries 
 and threatened their stability, especially Lebanon and Jordan, where new 
 jihadist groups mushroomed. Moreover, he shows that the spread of violence 
 at the street level is often the consequence of specific policies hatched 
 in Washington, D.C. Rosen offers a seminal and provocative account of the 
 surge, told from the perspective of U.S. troops on the ground, the Iraqi 
 security forces, Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents that were both allies 
 and adversaries. He also tells the story of what happened to these militias 
 once they outlived their usefulness to the Americans.\n\nAFTERMATH is both 
 a unique personal history and an unsparing account of what America has 
 wrought in Iraq and the region. The result is a hair- raising, 360-degree 
 view of the modern battlefield its consequent humanitarian catastrophe, and 
 the reality of counterinsurgency.\nNir Rosen, best known for In the Belly 
 of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq  (2006) is a 
 freelance writer, photographer, and film-maker who has worked in Iraq, 
 Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and other embattled lands.\nHe 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.\nNir 
 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. Rosen consults for NGOs and has worked on 
 many documentaries including a film he recently made for IFC called War, 
 which is part of the IFC Media Project. A fellow at the NYU Center on Law 
 and Security, he lives in New York City.\n\n$12 advance tickets: 
 www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133553\nor at 800-838-3006 \nor: Pegasus 
 Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and 
 Modern Times  ($15 door/$7 HC members)\n\nInformation: www.kpfa.org/events  
   KPFA Radio benefit \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/14/18661352.php
SUMMARY:Nir Rosen: Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World
LOCATION:The Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar St, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/14/18661352.php
DTSTART:20101105T023000Z
DTEND:20101105T043000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR