Anand Gopal is a journalist and author. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and Asia Times. Gopal's views on the Taliban have been quoted in several books. In 2012 Gopal was named as one of the New America Foundation's ten Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows for 2013. While there he planned to work on a book on the US war in Afghanistan. His book "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes", was published in April 2014. It was a 2014 nominee for the National Book Awards prize for non-fiction.
Gopal is a graduate of New York University. He followed up his Bachelor's degree with graduate studies in Physics and Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
In January 2010 Gopal published a story about secret prisons in Afghanistan, run by JSOC Joint Special Operations Command.
In 2012 Gopal reported, for Harper's Magazine, on the town of Taftanaz in Syria, which suffered a massacre at the hands of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. In 2014 he reported for Harper's on a murderous U.S.-backed police chief in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Gopal was one of the experts on Afghanistan chosen to appearing in the documentary Rethink Afghanistan.
Gopal conducted a rare interview with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the reclusive leader of one of the Taliban's most important allies.
Gopal was a resident of Manhattan when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.Continue Reading »
