Behind the Lines, Afghanistan Photographer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad & Author James Meek Wed 4th November

A night of photography and discussion with two of the most respected and informed journalists reporting from Afghanistan today.

James Meek was The Guardian’s Moscow correspondent for 10 years and has written award-winning reportage from Iraq and Afghanistan. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who works as a special correspondent for the Guardian. He photographed and wrote from behind the insurgent lines in Falluja and amongst the Shia militia in Najaf as well as covering the daily violence in Baghdad, the Iraqi elections and investigating jihadi networks in Syria and Jordan. Meeks’s fourth novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is published by Canongate.

HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TH
6:30pm (7pm start).
Tel: 020 7253 2770
rsvp@hostgallery.co.uk

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