Amman- I left what I thought was the everyday chaos of west Beirut yesterday to come to quiet Amman, Jordan’s comparatively sleepy, sprawling concrete block capital. On my last night in Beirut I went to a posh restaurant just east…
Beirut- Some thoughts on my days on Cyprus before heading here to Lebanon on my new-ish Substack.
Mykonos—This took me far too long to decide, but I’ve finally joined the Substack online community. I’ve always been a late adopter to social media, in part because I’m a late adopter to technology in general, from a baseline of…
Thera- My fieldwork in Triplotania in the summer of 2011 quoted by CNN was cited by Anna Samson in her PhD thesis titled “Finishing the job: How American presidents justify exit strategies in humanitarian interventions” at The Australian National University…
Thera— In the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of 9/11 this past week, Peter Bergen was all over my YouTube feed detailing CNN’s March 1997 interview in Tora Bora with Osama bin Laden. It immediately brought to mind a time…
