What The Taliban Told Me
Join Prof. Maura Spiegel in conversation with Ian Fritz, an Airborne Cryptologic Linguist in the United States Air Force before he enrolled at Columbia University and later become a physician.
Ian Fritz was an Airborne Cryptologic Linguist in the United States Air Force from 2008-2013, monitoring ground communications and determining in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians, before he enrolled at Columbia University and later became a physician. What the Taliban Told Me is his “fraught, moving” (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age-memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan. He will be joined by Prof. Maura Spiegel in a conversation about his book.
Monday March 25th, Hamilton Hall 317 at 5:00 PM. Please register here to attend.
