Dexter Filkins

Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in

Before joining the Times in September 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years. He reported from The New York Times' Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006.

In 2006–2007, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship; in 2007–2008, he was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.^[2]

Filkins's book,

Filkins joined The New Yorker in 2011.^[2]

Awards

Filkins has received two

Filkins has won two National Magazine Awards; in 2009, for his story, "Right At the Edge," and in 2011 for "Bedrooms of the Fallen," an essay with the photographer Ashley Gilbertson. Both appeared in the New York Times Magazine.

Filkins' article "Right at the Edge" (September 7, 2008) was part of the body of work by the staff of The New York Times awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs.^[12]

In 2010, his reporting for The New York Times from Iraq and Afghanistan, alongside the work of photographer Tyler Hicks and reporter C. J. Chivers, was selected by New York University as one of the "Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade".^[13]

Bibliography

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Books

• Filkins, Dexter (2008). The forever war. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Essays and reporting

• Filkins, Dexter (October 23, 2005). "The fall of the warrior king". Magazine. The New York Times.
• — (November 9, 2006). "Where Plan A left Ahmad Chalabi". Magazine. The New York Times.
• — (October 7, 2007). "Regrets Only?". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (March 21, 2010). "The Shrine Down The Hall". The New York Times Magazine. pp. 34–47.
• — (September 12, 2011). "The journalist and the spies". The New Yorker.
• — (July 9, 2012). "After America: Will civil war hit Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves?". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 88 (20): 54–67. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (October 29, 2012). "Atonement". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 88 (34): 92. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (February 25, 2013). "After Syria : if the Assad regime falls, can Hezbollah survive?". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (2): 48–57. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
• — (May 13, 2013). "The thin red line : inside the White House debate over Syria". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (13): 40–49.
• — (September 30, 2013). "The shadow commander : Qassem Suleimani is the Iranian operative who has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he's directing Assad's war in Syria". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (30): 42–53. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
• — (September 29, 2014). "The Fight Of Their Lives". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 90 (29): 42. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
• — (July 20, 2015). "Death of a prosecutor". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 91 (20): 38–51.
• — (March 7, 2016). "A truce in Syria". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (4): 17–18.
• — (January 2, 2017). "Before the flood : a failing dam threatens millions of Iraqis". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 22–28.^[a] Mosul Dam.
• — (October 15, 2018). "Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 94 (32): 38–46. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
• — (September 7, 2020). "The uncounted". Letter from Florida. The New Yorker. 96 (26): 34–45.^[b]
• — (September 13, 2021). "War with a human face : have rules to curb the cuelty of military force backfired?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 97 (28): 68–72.^[c]

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