Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid will speak on his new book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. A Pakistani journalist based in Lahore, Rashid was the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review ... (more)for 22 years until the magazine was recently closed down. He presently writes for the Daily Telegraph, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Review of Books, BBC Online, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Lahore and other academic and foreign affairs journals. He appears regularly on international TV and radio such as CNN and BBC World Service. He is the author of three books, including the best sellers Taliban and Jihad.