JSchool graduate Aryn Baker (’01) launches the fall semester Covering Asia program on August 27 with a talk on her recent coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Aryn was inside the Red Mosque in Islamabad when the tear gas assault started in July.

In August Aryn took a 10-day trek through eastern Afghanistan, which she called a “vacation.”

Read her most recent story “Taking Aim at the Taliban” (August 16, 2007) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653656,00.html

But Aryn has other reporting interests, as TIME notes in its summer 2007 special issue on food:

“When Aryn Baker, one of TIME’s correspondents based in New Delhi, goes to work in the badlands of Afghanistan, she sometimes does so-as you can see from the photo to the right-in full war-correspondent kit, helmet and flak jacket in place. But Aryn has another side; after graduating from college she spent four years working as a cook in Costa Rica, New York, Corsica and Paris. ” (TIME, June 15,2007)

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn first hand about the challenge facing Pakistan and the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan from a seasoned foreign correspondent just 6 years out of JSchool.

All students interested in international reporting, especially those taking Covering India and Asia Colloquium this fall, should plan to attend.