Book Reading: Nir Rosen: Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World

In addition to reading from and discussing his recent book, author Nir Rosen will reflect on his 2011 sojourn in the Arab world, which took him to Iraq for three months. He also visited Yemen, where he was a witness to the beginning of the ongoing revolution and the people's struggle against the tyranny of the ruling regime. He is expanding on his research to analyze the factors fomenting the sectarianism and civil conflict that are brewing across the Arab world. Nir Rosen's Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war unleashed in the Middle East.

If you happen to be in Manhattan tomorrow night and find yourself in need of wholesome entertainment, you might want to bop over to Alwan for the Arts to hear our old pal Nir Rosen, the guy who forgot that Twitter tweets were not priveledged communications and thereby temporarily derailed his high-flying career as the toast of the Manhattan cogniscenti, which position he achieved by admirably filling the niche of "public self-hating Jew."

He got in hot water, you will recall, by tweeting a series of messages on the subject of CBS News' Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan. Ms Logan was the recipient of manifold public intimacy meted out by a zelously friendly crowd as they expressed their feelings concerning Egyptian ex-exalted leader Hosni Mubarak on Friday, February 11, of the present year.

Mr. Rosen's transgressions started by stating that Ms. Logan got in trouble because she "had to outdo Anderson [Cooper]."

Things went downhill from there at a rapid rate. In a subsequent series of tweeted dispatches, Mr. Rosen opined that "it would be funny if what happened to her happened to Anderson too." Personally, I think this is where Mr. Rosen passed the point of no return.

So Now Mr. Rosen emerges from the stygian darkness of his temporary exile, into the relatively dim spotlight offered by Alwan for the Arts, an...

Arts & Culture organization that promotes understanding of, and fosters appreciation for, the diversity of cultural experiences and representations of the Arab world and of South Asia.

Alwan for the Arts is, by the way, supported largely through generous gifts from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) and Royal Air Maroc as well as past support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). Lots of international cooperation here, although it would seem that the bulk of that cooperation springs forth from the wallets of New York taxpayers, with a little international squeeze mixed in to keep it diverse.

Rock On Nir! Don't be such a stranger!

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