Dexter Filkins: Reporting from the Front Lines

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Partner:: World Affairs Council: Nor Cal
Location:: World Affairs Council of Northern California
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 09.23.08
Speaker:: Dexter Filkins
Tags:: warfare; journalist; media; afghanistan; iraq

Summary: War correspondents often provide us with greater insight into the complex experiences behind the headlines of the daily news.

Reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and New York during 9/11, Dexter Filkins works on the ground to interview soldiers, insurgents, suicide bombers and civilian victims of conflict and gives us unique access to situations such as street-to-street combat and wartorn homes and villages.

In The Forever War, he offers a personal glimpse into the experiences of the people involved in war - combatants and victims alike - World Affairs Council of Northern California

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Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins joined The New Yorker in January and has reported from Yemen and Afghanistan. Previously, he was at the Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has received two George Polk Awards and three Overseas Press Club Awards. His book, The Forever War, won a National Book Critics Circle Award.

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01 hr 02 min 25 sec

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01.: Moderator Introduction

03 min 01 sec

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02.: Filkins Opening Remarks

02 min 44 sec

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03.: Summarizing the Situation in Afghanistan

02 min 31 sec

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04.: Reasons for Writing the Book

01 min 54 sec

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05.: Reading: Kabul 1998

04 min 11 sec

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06.: The Faces of Kabul

03 min 16 sec

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07.: Reading: Witnessing a B-52 Attack in 2001

05 min 58 sec

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08.: Landscape of Northern Afghanistan

02 min 57 sec

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09.: Remembering Iraq

07 min 37 sec

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10.: Reading: Ramadi Government Center

08 min 40 sec

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11.: Q & A

00 min 20 sec

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12.: Q1: How Afghanis See the Occupation

02 min 10 sec

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13.: Q2: Civilian Treatment in Iraq

01 min 41 sec

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14.: Q3: Has the Surge Really Been Successful?

04 min 37 sec

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15.: Q4: Defeating Al-Qaeda without Invading Afghanistan

01 min 14 sec

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16.: Q5: War Reporting Addiction

01 min 22 sec

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17.: Q6: Personal Changes

01 min 03 sec

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18.: Q7: Posting Graphics Photos

01 min 32 sec

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19.: Q8: Times' Luxury Accommodations

01 min 10 sec

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20.: Q9: Progress in Tribal Areas

03 min 01 sec

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21.: Q10: What Next?

01 min 14 sec

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Dexter Filkins: Witnessing a B-52 Attack

04 min 51 sec

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Dexter Filkins: Attack of the Ramadi Government Center

06 min 48 sec

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Dexter Filkins Says the Surge Has Been Successful

04 min 55 sec

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