Nir Rosen

Nir Rosen was born in New York City and attended the High School of Music And Art. Rosen is known for his writings on the rise of violence in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, which form the basis of his first book, In the Belly of the Green Bird (2006).{{cite journal |author=Gupta, Arun K. (book review) |date=Winter 2007 |title=Nir Rosen. In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq; Loretta Napoleoni. Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation; Thomas E. Ricks. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq; Gabriel Kolko. The Age of War: The United States Confronts the World |journal=Arab Studies Quarterly |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=79–95 |url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6511186/Nir-Rosen-In-the-Belly.html |accessdate=February 16, 2011}} He spent eight years in Iraq reporting on the Coalition occupation, the relationship between Americans and Iraqis, the development of postwar Iraqi religious and political movements, inter-ethnic and sectarian relations, and the Iraqi civil war.

He has regularly contributed to leading periodicals, such as Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Review, and Harper's. He contributed to the footage of Iraq in Charles Ferguson's documentary No End In Sight and was also interviewed for the film. Rosen has written extensively against the surge in Iraq, notably in a March 2008 article for Rolling Stone.{{cite magazine |author=Rosen, Nir |date=March 6, 2008 |title=The myth of the surge |magazine=Rolling Stone |issue=1047 |pages=46–53 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge |archivedate=February 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226080836/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge |accessdate=February 17, 2011}}

From 2005 to 2008, Rosen was a fellow at the New America Foundation.{{cite web |date=November 16, 2010 |title=Is Afghanistan a lost cause? |work=Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/11/12/131281872/is-afghanistan-a-lost-cause |accessdate=February 17, 2011}} In September 2007, he was the C.V. Starr Distinguished Visitor at The American Academy in Berlin.{{cite web |date=September 1, 2007 |title=The American Academy in Berlin welcomes its Fellows and Distinguished Visitors for the Fall 2007 (press release) |publisher=The American Academy in Berlin |url=http://www.americanacademy.de/fileadmin/assets/Press_Releases/PR_Fellowspresentation_eng.pdf |accessdate=February 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718195454/http://www.americanacademy.de/fileadmin/assets/Press_Releases/PR_Fellowspresentation_eng.pdf |archivedate=July 18, 2011 }} On April 2, 2008, Rosen testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee at their hearings on political prospects in Iraq after the surge.{{cite web |date=April 2, 2008 |title=Hearing: Iraq after the surge: political prospects |publisher=U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee |url=http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=b448e148-0e36-c7ca-1b26-2620e0eac874 |accessdate=February 17, 2011}}{{cite book |year=2009 |title=Iraq after the surge: hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 110th Congress, 2nd session, April 2, 3, 8, and 10, 2008 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=U.S. G.P.O. |isbn=978-0-16-082997-0 |pages=125–139, 141–144, 146–147, 149–150, 152–153, 155–158, 160–165|url=http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_senate_hearings&docid=f:47921.pdf |accessdate=February 23, 2011}}

In 2010, he published his second book, Aftermath. From 2008 to 2011, Rosen was a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law,{{cite web |date=April 30, 2008 |title=2007–2008 Fellows |publisher=Center on Law and Security, New York University School of Law

|url=http://www.lawandsecurity.org/about_fellows.cfm |accessdate=February 20, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430142422/http://www.lawandsecurity.org/about_fellows.cfm |archivedate=April 30, 2008}} until his resignation in the wake of his controversial statements about Lara Logan's sexual assault in Egypt.{{cite web |author=Greenberg, Karen J. |date=February 16, 2011 |title=Official CLS statement on Nir Rosen

|publisher=Center on Law and Security, New York University School of Law |url=http://www.lawandsecurity.org/get_article/?id=154 |accessdate=February 20, 2011}}

In February 2011, Rosen commented to his Twitter account regarding Lara Logan, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, who was beaten and sexually assaulted in the February riots in Egypt.{{cite news |date=2011-02-15 |title=CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-lara-logan-assaulted-during-egypt-protests/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215224251/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/15/60minutes/main20032070.shtml |archive-date=2011-02-15 |access-date=2011-02-15 |publisher=CBS News |quote=She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.}} "Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger," wrote Rosen.{{cite web |author=Goldberg, Jeffrey (opinion piece) |date=February 15, 2011 |title=Maybe this Nir Rosen person should reconsider tweeting |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/02/maybe-this-nir-rosen-person-should-reconsider-tweeting/71343/ |accessdate=February 16, 2011 |publisher=TheAtlantic.com}} Rosen suggested that she was trying to outdo Anderson Cooper, who was attacked but not sexually assaulted just days before, and that it would have been humorous had Cooper suffered a similar assault, saying "it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson too."{{cite web |author=Stockdale, Nicole (opinion blog) |date=February 15, 2011 |title=After Lara Logan news, maybe it's better to remain speechless |url=http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/02/after-lara-loga.html |accessdate=February 16, 2011 |publisher=DallasNews.com}}{{cite web |author=Williams, Mary Elizabeth (opinion piece) |date=February 15, 2011 |title=What not to say about Lara Logan |url=http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/02/15/lara_logan_rape_reaction/index.html?source=rss |accessdate=February 16, 2011 |work=Salon.com}} Rosen later posted an apology on Twitter{{cite web |author=. (blog) |date=February 16, 2011 |title=Nir Rosen apologizes after joking about Lara Logan's assault on Twitter |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/nir-rosen-lara-logan-twitter_n_823935.html |accessdate=February 16, 2011 |publisher=HuffingtonPost.com}} and resigned his position as a fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security.{{cite web |author=Lewis, Matt (opinion blog) |date=February 16, 2011 |title=Nir Rosen resigns as NYU fellow after trashing Lara Logan on Twitter |url=http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/16/nir-rosen-resigns-from-nyu-after-trashing-lara-logan-on-twitter/ |accessdate=February 17, 2011 |publisher=PoliticsDaily.com}} Rosen stated that he did not read the CBS News press release to which he had linked and that at the time of his comments he did not know Logan's assault had been sexual.{{cite web |author=Mirkinson, Jack (blog) |date=February 17, 2011 |title=Nir Rosen to Anderson Cooper on Lara Logan assault tweets: 'I was a jerk' (video) |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/nir-rosen-anderson-cooper-lara-logan_n_824411.html |accessdate=February 22, 2011 |publisher=HuffingtonPost.com}}

In March 2011, Mary Kaldor, Co-Director at the Center for Global Governance at the London School of Economics had hired Rosen as a research fellow to work on North Africa.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23936080-lse-hires-writer-who-jeered-at-reporters-sex-assault-in-egypt.do |title=LSE hires writer who jeered at reporter's sex assault in Egypt | News |access-date=2011-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817072859/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23936080-lse-hires-writer-who-jeered-at-reporters-sex-assault-in-egypt.do |archive-date=2011-08-17 |url-status=dead }} This created controversy due to Kaldor's involvement in the LSE–Gaddafi affair.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1oqqxmEgcXbZDY4NGUwOTAtN2FkNC00MTUzLWIyZjgtNzdmMjZjYmZmY2Q3&hl=sv&pli=1|title = North Africa Research Programme.PDF}} After two days, Rosen resigned from his position as a fellow at the London School of Economics. An LSE spokesman said, “Nir Rosen today resigned his temporary visiting fellowship at LSE—which was an unpaid position.”{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12899154|title=Nir Rosen quits LSE after Lara Logan Twitter comments|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=30 March 2011|date=March 29, 2011}}

In April 2008, when asked by then-Senator Joe Biden what could be done to improve the situation in Iraq, Rosen replied: "As a journalist, I'm uncomfortable advising an imperialist power about how to be a more efficient imperialist power. I don't think we're there for the interests of the Iraqi people. I don't think that's ever been a motivation."{{cite web |last=Khanna|first=Satyam|date=April 4, 2008 |title=Rosen: U.S. occupation in Middle East is ' imperialist.' |work=ThinkProgress.org|url=http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/04/rosen-us-occupation-in-middle-east-is-imperialist/ |accessdate=February 17, 2011}}

;Books

• In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq, New York: Free Press, 2006. {{ISBN|0-7432-7703-1}}
• (as paperback) The Triumph of the Martyrs: A Reporter's Journey into Occupied Iraq, Potomac Books Inc., 2008. {{ISBN|1-59797-184-7}}
• Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World, Nation Books, 2010. {{ISBN|1-56858-401-6}}

;Articles (excerpt)

• "If America Left Iraq: The case for cutting and running" The Atlantic Monthly (December 2005).
• [http://www.bostonreview.net/BR31.6/rosen.php "Anatomy of a Civil War: Iraq's descent into chaos"], Boston Review (November/December, 2006)
• "Nir Rosen on Iraq’s descent into civil war: 'This is a U.S. crime'". Socialist Worker (December 8, 2006 | Pages 6 and 7)
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13refugees-t.html?ei=5090&en=0e385f80d7024305&ex=1336708800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print "The Flight from Iraq"], New York Times Magazine (May 13, 2007)
• [https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/05/iraq_contractors.html "Riding Shotgun With Our Shadow Army in Iraq"], Mother Jones (May/June 2007)
• [http://bostonreview.net/BR33.1/rosen.php "Al Qaeda in Lebanon: The Iraq war spreads"] Boston Review (January/February 2008)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110221015949/http://www.newamerica.net/node/9087 "The Myth of the Surge"], Rolling Stone (March 2008)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081022193045/http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2008/how_we_lost_war_we_won_8200 "How we lost the war we won"], Rolling Stone (October 2008)
• [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel "Gaza: the logic of colonial power"], The Guardian (December 2008)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100823074149/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2010699,00.html "How Did al-Shabab Emerge from the Chaos of Somalia?"], Time (August 20, 2010)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822163914/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2010700,00.html "Somalia's al-Shabab: A Global or Local Movement?"], Time (August 20, 2010)
• [http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201151882929682601.html "Western Media Fraud In The Middle East"], Al Jazeera (May 18, 2011)
• [http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201152483619116456.html "Yemen's Shia dilemma"], Al Jazeera (May 24, 2011)
• [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n18/nir-rosen/among-the-alawites "Among the Alawites"], London Review of Books (September 27, 2012)

• {{cite journal |author=Xenakis, Nicholas J. |date=Summer 2006 |title=T for Terrorist (book reviews of Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta; Nir Rosen, In the Belly of the Green Bird) |journal=The National Interest |issue=84 |pages=134–138 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_84/ai_n16689827 |accessdate=June 24, 2006}}

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