Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Journalist, National Editor of The Washington Post

Bio

Rajiv Chandrasekaran holds a degree in political science from Stanford University. With The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan.

Chandrasekaran's first book: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone was published in 2006, won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.

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  Rajiv Chandrashekaran on Baghdad's Green Zone

  Jan 2009

  50 min