turco author is the rev. desmond tutu. >> book tv is on twitter. phos for regular updates on programming and news, nonfiction books and authors. >> up next nir rosen, a free-lance writer and filmmaker who has worked in iraq, afghanistan, and pakistan but said the growth of realism in the u.s. as the least. his talk at rice university in houston texas loss of one hour and 15 minutes. >> so my book deals with iraq, the civil war, how the civil war began, allied came to an end and what iraq looks like today. the other half deals with the iraq impact on the region, fighting in lebanon, and increasingly the unstable middle east and in no way how iraq came to afghanistan. by that i mean the u.s. began tampa meant many of the same tactics which were used in afghanistan. and we saw -- on site, iraq. we saw suicide bombings. things that we were associating with iraq coming to afghanistan. a forgotten subjects in the media. nobody cares about it. it's hard to get people interested. i'm grateful to see such a large crowd here. afghanistan, a little bit more t