Nir Rosen
 In the Belly of the Green Bird:
 The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq
 May 2006
 New America Foundation

 Journalist, author and Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, Nir Rosen speaks Arabic and has managed to gain exceptional access to occupied Iraq and Afghanistan as well as to Somalia and other areas.
New America Foundation biographical information: “Mr. Rosen covered the elections in Afghanistan and the differences between the American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has also reported from Somalia, where he investigated Islamist movements; Jordan, where he investigated the origins and future of the Zarqawi movement; and Pakistan, where he investigated the madrassas and pro-Taliban movements. Mr. Rosen’s book on postwar Iraq, In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq, was published by Free Press in 2006. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, Boston Review, Time, Mother Jones, and World Policy Journal.”
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