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... And we're also joined from our New York studios by Steve Coll. He's president of the New America Foundation, a public policy Institute. He's also a contributor to The New Yorker magazine. Steve Coll, welcome. ...

For the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, we asked New Yorker contributors to look back on how their work, and their lives, were changed. Here are Steve Coll’s answers.

Steve Coll, the president and CEO of the New America Foundation, and the author of six books- including the highly acclaimed Ghost Wars (2004) that focuses on the history of CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, said that the Pakistan Government "has ...

... Steve Coll, best-selling author and president of New America Foundation, is scheduled to visit. He won the Pulitzer Prize for “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.”

The New America Foundation is pleased to announce that Shamila N. Chaudhary has joined its National Securities Studies Program to serve as a Senior South Asia Fellow.

New America President Steve Coll said, "We are thrilled that Shamila is joining our South Asia team at New America. She has worked all of the hard issues on the inside of government and yet retains a fresh, creative, energized and inter-disciplinary perspective. She offers new thinking and hard-won expertise that our debates about Pakistan and the region sorely need."

From Steve Coll's riveting and comprehensive The Bin Ladens, we learned of a young fanatic outcast amongst playboy brothers, a family showered with dinars and dollars by a grateful Saudi royal elite and a zealot who spent them upon holy war. ...

Writing last year in The New Yorker, Steve Coll described a country whose number of poor people had fallen by almost half between 1999 and 2008, from 30 percent of the population to about 17 percent. “This extraordinary change, a result of rapid ...

In his book The Bin Ladens, Steve Coll writes that he ''mocked his Western adversaries for misunderstanding him as a pre-modern fanatic, a bearded loner in a faraway cave; he saw himself, instead, as a master of global technology and change''. ...

The New America Foundation is pleased to announce that Anne-Marie Slaughter has rejoined its Board of Directors. Dr. Slaughter left the board -- as well as her post at Princeton University -- in 2009 to serve as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. Since leaving the administration in early 2011, Dr. Slaughter has returned to Princeton as the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs.

Steve Coll, another witness, said al-Awlaki has quickly become "a significant voice in English-medium discourse for al-Qaida." Coll is head of the New America Foundation and author of "Ghost wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, ...