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…
My India Work Cited by Yale University Press
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…
My Work in Afghanistan Cited by US Naval War College
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…
TWD Cited by the Rand Corporation
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…
The Transcendence of the Tanbur
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…
My Work in Iraq Cited by the Library of Congress
New York- My work in Syria and Iraq was cited by the Library of Congress and the London-based openDemocracy respectively. My fieldwork in northern Syria’s Idlib governorate for Janes Islamic Affairs Analyst was given a hat tip in “Unrest in…