New York- My field research on North Korean monuments across post-colonial Africa was cited by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea in their report titled Illicit: North Korea’s Evolving Operations to Earn Hard Currency by Sheena Chestnut…
New York- My fieldwork in northeast India’s troubled Assam state was cited in Bangladesh’s Fight Against Terrorism: Return from the Precipice by author Anand Kumar of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. Though much…
An article of mine from my days at Asia Times Online was cited in Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier by noted Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner. Great Game East explores the decades old…
New York- My work in Afghanistan for the Jamestown Foundation was cited in the paper “The Opium of Afghanistan: The Taliban Center of Gravity” by Lieutenant Commander Matt Ross. The Taliban infamously went from slashing poppy yields in the Helmand…
New York- My frontline work in Iraq in the heady days of the war against IS-known as Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve in American security speak-was cited in a research report published by the Rand Corporation. The report titled…
New York- Yes, I’m doing another quick tanbur post. In all my years traveling across Iraq and Syria as a reporter and analyst, there was a lot of downtime while waiting in limbo for access to this or that story…