Big Ideas Events: George Packer on Iraq

New Yorker staff writer George Packer will be talking with Clyde Haberman, NYC columnist for the New York Times at the Center for Global Affairs in the Woolworth Building.

Here is Packer's official bio in the New Yorker:

George Packer became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 2003 and has covered the Iraq War for the magazine. His book “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq,” was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times and won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award and an Overseas Press Club’s book award. He has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and global counterinsurgency. In 2003, Packer was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards, one for his twenty-thousand-word examination of the difficulties faced during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, which appeared in November, 2003, and the other for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, which appeared in January, 2003. . . .

Links to Packer's articles via Wikipedia.

Wednesday, December 5th
6:30PM - 7:45PM

The Center for Global Affairs
Woolworth Building
15 Barclay Street, 4th Floor (Between Broadway and Church Street)


The event is being hosted by the Center for Global Affairs, so you'll have to register with them.

(212) 992-8380
scps.global.affairs@nyu.edu

Please send me a quick email at Eric.Ozawa at NYU to let me know if you'll be coming.

-Eric