Marty, i, i am the executive editor of the Washington Post. The Washington Post is a charter sponsor the National Book festival since the beginning and we are happy to do it again this year. The Library Library of congress has been the festival toast since the festival began 16 years ago. We want to thank the chairman of the festival and the many National Book festival sponsors who made the event possible this year. You can make a donation to the festival by checking the information in your program, there is to be time for question afterward and this is being filmed as well. You should know that. It to her speaker, the Washington Post has gratified to have some of the finest National Security reporters in the country and a standout among them is it joe b warrant. When you read black flakes, the rise of isis youll see why. And the most revealing portrait yet offal zarqawi, founding father of the organization that became the Islamic State. As our country aims to destroy isis and as isis
And the most revealing portrait yet offal zarqawi, founding father of the organization that became the Islamic State. As our country aims to destroy isis and as isis seeks to metastasize beyond iraq and syria, there could not be a more urgent and timely treatment of this subject. As isis and Terrorism Take center stage in a president ial race, this book offers a refuge in actual facts. Imagine that. [laughter] and in an absorbing history of our times and in a sober assessment of failures across the political and governmental landscape. For good reason, black flags this year was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. The judges described it as a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of todays most dangerous extremist threat. All of us at the post were enormously proud when the pulitzer recognized the excellence of the work, and it was not, by the way, the first time they had done so. The prize for black flags is his second pulitzer. In the two decades sin
Action, it is our intention to partner with the district and to add to the echo system, and that will generate change and specifically we will hold ourselves accountable instilling the love of learning now and preparing the students for rapidly changing future and insuring that preparation is not just accident, but equitable for the students with barriers and for the families to take a empowered role in their students education and making it accessible for the childrens schools the tremendous resources that the city has to offer and demonstrating the benefits of a school and Museum Partnership and we have had the pleasure of meeting many of you individually, and so, thank you for your time. And for those who have not yet met with, i will welcome the opportunity and i will be in touch and i also invite you to join us for the upcoming budget and curriculum meetings in early october and most importantly, we want to introduce to you, whose two sons, juan and deigo attended the First Progra
To take a empowered role in their students education and making it accessible for the childrens schools the tremendous resources that the city has to offer and demonstrating the benefits of a school and Museum Partnership and we have had the pleasure of meeting many of you individually, and so, thank you for your time. And for those who have not yet met with, i will welcome the opportunity and i will be in touch and i also invite you to join us for the upcoming budget and curriculum meetings in early october and most importantly, we want to introduce to you, whose two sons, juan and deigo attended the First Program where we piloted the model and learned a tremendous amount from their experience and i invited them to speak on behalf of the parents that we have the privilege to work alongside and to share their thoughts. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] good evening, we have two sons, juan who is ten and diego who is 6 and our experience with the new school over the summer was really a
For rapidly changing future and insuring that preparation is not just accident, but equitable for the students with barriers and for the families to take a empowered role in their students education and making it accessible for the childrens schools the tremendous resources that the city has to offer and demonstrating the benefits of a school and Museum Partnership and we have had the pleasure of meeting many of you individually, and so, thank you for your time. And for those who have not yet met with, i will welcome the opportunity and i will be in touch and i also invite you to join us for the upcoming budget and curriculum meetings in early october and most importantly, we want to introduce to you, whose two sons, juan and deigo attended the First Program where we piloted the model and learned a tremendous amount from their experience and i invited them to speak on behalf of the parents that we have the privilege to work alongside and to share their thoughts. [ speaking in a Foreign