Alan Brody

Biography

Alan Brody worked for twenty-two years with the UN Children’s Fund, most recently as UNICEF Representative in Swaziland (1999–2006), and before that with assignments in China, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Nigeria. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Iowa, and served for over seven years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana in the 1970s. He is currently a freelance writer, lecturer, and consultant based in Iowa City, Iowa.

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 2008

Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah

By Alan Brody

Those of us serving with the United Nations in Afghanistan first heard the word “Taliban” around the middle of 1994. The group, headed by a shadowy, one-eyed “Mullah Umar,” appeared mysteriously on the scene in Kandahar, southeast...