Portrait of Pakistan: From the Streets of Islamabad to the North-West Frontier Province
With Nicholas Schmidle, Fellow, New America Foundation
- When
- Tue Sep 15, 2009
- Where
- Marines' Memorial Club Hotel
- Time
- 6:00 PM
- Tags
- Books, Education
Description
The World Affairs Council is pleased to co-sponsor a Marines’ Memorial event with journalist Nicholas Schmidle to discuss the most recent and turbulent period of Pakistan’s history. In February 2006 Schmidle traveled to Pakistan hoping to learn more about the place dubbed “the most dangerous country in the world.” After spending two years covering Pakistan and being deported twice by the Pakistani authorities for his reporting, his observations provide a contemporary history of this country at a time when President Pervez Musharraf’s power was waning and the Taliban’s was growing, and when Americans began to realize that Pakistan’s fate is inextricably linked with our own. A fellow at the New America Foundation, Schmidle writes for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Smithsonian, and received the Kurt Schork Award for freelance journalism in 2008.Advanced registration is recommended.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.itsyourworld.org/assnfe/ev.asp?ID=2575&SnID=10753...
- Call
- 415-293-4600
- Call
- 415.673.6672 ext. 229 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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