Sudarsan Raghavan
Barcelona
Correspondent at large
Education: University of California at Los Angeles, political science and economics; Columbia University, master's in journalism; Columbia University, master's in international affairs; Columbia University, graduate-level certificate in South Asia studies
Sudarsan Raghavan is a correspondent at large for The Washington Post, based out of Barcelona. He has spent the past three decades mostly as a foreign correspondent posted variously in Baghdad, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kabul, Madrid and Nairobi (twice), reporting from more than 65 countries on four continents.
He has widely covered Islamist movements, global terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks and its aftermath, the 2003 Iraq invasion, the 1996 rise of the Taliban, its 2001 fall and 2021 recapture of Afghanistan. He has also extensively reported on