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Book Talk Webinar with Shuja Nawaz

The author of The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US friendship and a Tough Neighborhood (2020), Shuja Nawaz is a Distinguished Fellow with the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council, where he served as the founding director of the Center (2009-14). Previously, Mr. Nawaz was with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1975 to 2005, during which he headed three separate divisions. Nawaz was also a director at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (1991-2001). He has also worked for the New York Times and the World Health Organization, and is the author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within (2017).

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