Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 22 February
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Foreign correspondent Kim Barker’s personal account of reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Taliban Shuffle, is a fiercely honest – and occasionally hilarious – dissection of the absurdities of an intractable conflict. Barker, previously South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, abandons the journalist’s conventional poker-faced neutrality for a mordant take on the newest American – and Australian – military quagmire. In conversation with Karen Middleton (An Unwinnable War).
Featuring
Kim Barker
Kim Barker grew up in Montana, Wyoming, and Oregon, and graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism. She worked at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, for four years, and The Seattle Times for two years, winning awards for her investigative reporting.
In 2001, at age thirty, she joined the Chicago Tribune and began making reporting trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan the next year. Barker was the Tribune’s South Asia bureau chief from 2004 to 2009. She was then awarded the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow press fellowship to study Afghanistan and Pakistan.
She now lives in New York City, where she works as a reporter at ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Karen Middleton
Karen Middleton is a political journalist with more than two decades' experience reporting on national and international affairs in print and broadcast media.
A former president of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery and a Churchill Fellow, she is chief political correspondent with SBS TV, a long-time newspaper columnist and radio commentator, and a panellist on the ABC1’s lnsiders. Karen was in Washington DC on September 11, 2001, and reported from Afghanistan in 2007.