Nir Rosen (born May 17, 1977,[1] New York City) is an American journalist and chronicler of the Iraq War, who resides in Lebanon.

Rosen is known for his writings on the rise of violence in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, which form the basis of his first book, In the Belly of the Green Bird (2006).

He has regularly contributed to leading periodicals, such as Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Review, and Harper's.

[11] In March 2011, Mary Kaldor, Co-Director at the Center for Global Governance at the London School of Economics had hired Rosen as a research fellow to work on North Africa.

[20] Rosen stated that he did not read the CBS News press release[15] to which he had linked and that at the time of his comments he did not know Logan's assault had been sexual.