New York- Friends and filmmakers Havana Marking and Phil Stebbing have a follow-up to their award-winning documentary Afghan Star called Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star, in which they follow Setara, one of the primary characters from the first…
My Media Round Up This Week
New York- I had kind of a busy week with (background) appearances on PBS Frontline on Tuesday with Canadian journalist Martin Smith’s interview with Amrullah Saleh where they wove in shots from the fourth annual Jamestown terrorism conference at the…
The Truth Left Behind-The Debut of the Pearl Project
Washington D.C.- This morning the Pearl Project- an investigation into the murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago-debuts today and I’m proud to say it received top billing on today’s Washington Post homepage. I worked on…
Watch Frontline at 9pm on Tuesday
NewYork- This Tuesday, PBS Frontline will be airing a segment on Amrullah Saleh who was a the keynote speaker at our December 9th annual terrorism conference and departed the Karzai administration in June of last year. There should be some…
Jon Lee Anderson on the End of Tamil Eelam
New York- There is a good article titled “Death of the Tiger” in this week’s New Yorker on the end of the Sri Lankan war, which meant the end of the LTTE, the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran (the LTTE’s late…