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Anand Gopal
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Anand Gopal is an American journalist and nonfiction author whose work examines conflict, the Middle East, and Afghan experiences of war.
Biography
Anand Gopal is an American writer and journalist who contributes to The New Yorker. His reporting addresses conflict and the Middle East, and his journalism honors include the National Magazine Award. He is a professor of practice at Arizona State University, affiliated with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the School of Politics and Global Studies, and the Future Security Initiative.
Gopal wrote No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes, which follows three Afghans caught in the war on terror. The book was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He also wrote Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution, a narrative nonfiction account of revolutionaries who overthrew a dictator.
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Books by Anand Gopal
No good men among the living
No Good Men Among the Living follows a Taliban commander, a U.S.-backed warlord, and a housewife through the war in Afghanistan. Gopal argues that U.S. forces, influenced by false intelligence and unwilling to accept Taliban leaders’ readiness to surrender, helped revive the insurgency.