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August 21, 2011
Pamela Constable
Author, "Playing With Fire"
Pamela Constable BIO:
CURRENTLY:
·Author, "Playing With Fire: Pakistan At War With Itself"
·Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post

PREVIOUSLY:
·Deputy Foreign Editor, The Washington Post
·Reporter, The Boston Globe
·Reporter, The Baltimore Sun
·Reporter, The Evening Capital (Annapolis, MD)

EDUCATION:
·Brown University

BOOKS:
·Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia (2004)
·Co-Author with Arturo Valenzuela, A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet (1993)

PERSONAL:
·Founded The Afghan Stray Animal League.




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Info: Our guest is Pamela Constable, author of a new narrative detailing the political, cultural, and religious complexities existing in modern day Pakistan. She portrays a country riddled with corruption, devastated by floods, and terrorized by Islamic extremists. She describes the divide between rural and urban justice along with the high level of mistrust between allied military and intelligence interests in Islamabad and Washington. She discusses the hostility felt by citizens of Pakistan towards America, despite having received millions of dollars in aid from the United States over the years. Constable recounts her early influences as a writer and speaks of a near death experience as a reporter in Afghanistan.

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