My personal Substack
An experience junkie from Bangkok to Beirut, Stockholm to Singapore, Cairo to Istanbul
This is a short course based on my 2022 book, entitled "Benghazi: A New History of the Fiasco That Drove America and Its World To the Brink (Hachette Books)
Providing essential, iconoclastic context on Middle East politics and conflicts - with a dose of dog. Author of "Benghazi: A New History" (22) and past contributor to Foreign Affairs, the NYT, Salon, and the FT.
Observations on history, society, and the media from an American journalist who lived in the Middle East.