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…
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…
New York- Something I happened in my years covering the era of the terror wars known in the Anglosphere more formally as Operation Inherent Resolve-more simply the war against the so-called Islamic State-was the mystical sound of the tanbur. The…