Anand Gopal

Who is Anand Gopal?

Anand Gopal is a journalist. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Asia Times. Gopal's views on the Taliban have been quoted in several books.

Gopal earned a bachelor's degree from New York University and also completed graduate studies in physics and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2012 Gopal was named as one of the New America Foundation's ten Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows for 2013. While there he will work on a book on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. His book No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes will be published by Metropolitan Books in 2014.

In January 2010 Gopal published a story about secret prisons in Afghanistan, run by JSOC Joint Special Operations Command.

Gopal was one of the experts on Afghanistan chosen to appear in the documentary Rethink Afghanistan.

Gopal conducted a rare interview with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the reclusive leader of one of the Taliban's most important allies.