The Ralph O. & Monona H. Nafziger Lecture

"Iraq’s Elusive Peace: A Reporter’s View from Inside the Green Zone"

Presented by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post National Editor
and award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City.

5 p.m. Wednesday, October 17, 2007. Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the bungled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. The book, which provides a firsthand view of life inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, won the Overseas Press Club book award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize and Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize. It also was a finalist for the National Book Award. As National Editor, he oversees the newspaper’s national news content, including coverage of the federal government and domestic politics, foreign policy, national security, social issues, science and medicine.