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 nuanced context on Middle East and African conflicts and cultures - with a dose of dog.
Observations on history, society, and the media from an American journalist who lived in the Middle East.