Nir Rosen

Born and raised in New York City, Nir Rosen is a writer, journalist and film-maker. He is also a Fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security. He has spent over 36 months working in occupied Iraq, four months in Afghanistan and has also worked in Somalia, the Congo, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon, where he lives with his wife and son. His work has been published by the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker Magazine, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone Magazine, and similar publications. He has filmed for several documentaries. One of them, "No End in Sight," about the occupation of Iraq, recently won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His book on Iraq, "In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq," was published by Free Press in 2006 and is being released as an updated paperback in April 2008 under the new title "The Triumph of the Martyrs." Rosen recently returned from three months in Baghdad where he filmed a documentary for British Channel 4. He is a frequent guest on CNN, CNN International, al Jazeera International and various other television and radio shows. He was most recently in Iraq between November 2007 and February 2008. His work can be found at WWW.NIRROSEN.COM