The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors? Lunch with Amy Waldman, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and Racliffe Fellow,on Wednesday, February 21st, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).Amy Waldman is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where she writes on both domestic and foreign issues. Most recently, she has written about the use of religion in terrorism trials, focusing on what this reveals about the conduct of the war on terror and about Islam itself. From 1997 to 2006, she worked at The New York Times and was co-chief of the paper?s South Asia bureau from 2002 through 2005. She won a 2005 Overseas Press Club Award for reporting from India. Waldman is a Radcliffe Fellow for the 2006-2007 academic year. During this period Waldman is working on the social and intellectual history of Muslims in modern Great Britain, starting with the migration of individuals?and of ideas, ideologies, and schools of Islam?from the Indian subcontinent and the Arab world. She will examine how the relationship between Muslims and their British rulers during the colonial era has shaped the dynamics of Islam today and how Britain has become a pivotal intellectual and ideological battleground for modern Islam. Waldman graduated from Yale University magna cum laude in 1991 with a B.A. in English
