 |
|
Sudarsan Raghavan |
Sudarsan Raghavan is The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau chief. He has reported from more than 50 countries and nine war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the former Soviet Union and Central America. He covered the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, writing from the Persian Gulf, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan; he also covered the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq and then the ongoing insurgency.
He has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; civil wars in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; post-apartheid South Africa; the rise of the Taliban Islamic regime in Afghanistan; and the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. He has investigated child slavery in West Africa and the roots of hunger in southern Africa. He spent much of 2004 covering the humanitarian crisis and civil war in Sudan's Darfur region.
Raghavan has also worked for Newsweek and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and freelanced for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and other U.S. and British media. Prior to joining the Post in 2005, Raghavan was Knight Ridder's Africa bureau chief. He started his career in 1992 freelancing from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He has won the George Polk Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other prizes.
|
|
|
|
© 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College