Join the Pulitzer Center on Thursday, September 23, at 11:00am CDT for a conversation with grantees Jane Ferguson and Jeffrey Stern, as well as guest contributor Nasema Zeerak, examining the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. The webinar will be moderated by Pulitzer Center grantee and PBS NewsHour correspondent Amna Nawaz.
After last month’s Taliban takeover and the withdrawal of U.S. troops following nearly two decades of war, huge questions linger over the future of the country and its 40 million inhabitants. In this conversation, panelists draw on their reporting and research.
Jane Ferguson reported on the ground from Kabul during last month’s U.S.-led evacuations for PBS NewsHour and NPR, as part of her Pulitzer Center-supported project, Afghanistan: After the Americans. It marked her third trip to the country so far this year, as part of her coverage for NewsHour.
Jeffrey Stern is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has been published in The New York TimesMagazine, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and other outlets. The Pulitzer Center supported Stern’s reporting in Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014, during the end of Operation Enduring Freedom and what was supposed to be the final chapter of U.S. involvement.
Nasema Zeerak is a doctoral student at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Zeerak’s recently co-authored article for OpenDemocracy explores how the U.S. withdrawal is not the end to the war for Afghans, despite reports from many Western outlets. Zeerak is a contributor to the Pulitzer Center’s Speaking Out on Coronavirus series.
Amna Nawaz is the chief correspondent and primary substitute anchor for PBS NewsHour.
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