As a freelance foreign correspondent, I spent most of the past decade living in the Middle East, where I specialized in reporting on politics and civilian life in war-torn countries. I was a special correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Baghdad (2003–2004) and The New Republic in Beirut (2005–2007). My writing on culture, politics, and the Middle East has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Granta, and The Nation.
