Rajiv Chandrasekaran | |
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 Chandrasekaran in 2015 | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Notable awards | Samuel Johnson Prize |
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post , where he has worked since 1994. [1]
He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science. [2]
At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times. [3] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, [4] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize [5] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. [6] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book. [7]
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The Pizzeria Napoli is a pizza restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq. The owner Waleed Al Bayati previously lived in Italy and along with his brother, set up the restaurant on Saturday, June 27, 2003 when Saddam Hussein's government fell after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He made a brisk business selling pizza to coalition troops, and even received a mobile phone from American forces so he could take orders. The restaurant was also popular with western reporters including Washington Post bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran who would order several pizzas for his staff.
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