Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an Indian-American journalist. He is currently the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Chandrasekaran holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.
At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He opposes both wars.
His first book is Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone published in 2006, which won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired' by" the book. The film was written by Brian Helgeland, directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan and Greg Kinnear. The film is a fictionalized drama set in the early days after the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, the occupation and governance particularly of Baghdad and the Green Zone thereafter by the Coalition Provisional Authority, and the search for weapons of mass destruction.[1]
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