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Narrative as Violence, Narrative as Resistance: Investigative Journalism and the War on Terror

Featuring Matthieu Aikins, freelance journalist and winner of the 2014 George Polk […]

Featuring Matthieu Aikins, freelance journalist and winner of the 2014 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for “The A-Team Killings” (Rolling Stone).  He is the author of Bird of Chaman and Flower of the Khyber and has spent much of the past five years based in Kabul, Afghanistan, covering Central and South Asia for publications such as Harper’s, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and GQ.  Aikins studied in the joint M.A. program for Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies (2009-2010) and completed his M.A. in Near Eastern Studies in 2012.

With comments by:

Maya Mikdashi, Director of Graduate Studies, Near Eastern Studies, NYU and Co-founder, Jadaliyya Ezine

Adam Shatz, Visiting Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, NYU and Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books

Co-sponsored by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies with the Global and Joint Program Studies at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.