Educational Program with Pulitzer-nominated journalist Jere Van Dyk
Jere Van Dyk is a journalist and author who has focused much of his writing on Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the early 1980s, working as a correspondent for The New York Times, Jere Van Dyk lived with the mujahideen in Afghanistan as they fought against the Soviet Red Army, an experience that was recapped in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated articles, and in his first book, “In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey.” Twenty years later, he returned to Afghanistan to report on the U.S.-led war, only to be captured and held by the Taliban for 45 days in 2008. This harrowing experience is detailed in his book “Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban,” which Foreign Affairs selected as one of its “Must-Read Books for the World Ahead.” His book, “The Trade, My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping,” is the story of his trip back to Afghanistan and Pakistan to find out who really kidnapped him, and why. It was selected by The Sunday New York Times Book Review as an Editors’ Choice.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 | 7 PM EST
