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The Way of the Strangers

About me

Location	United States
Introduction	I'm a National Correspondent at The Atlantic and lecturer in political science at Yale University. I joined The Atlantic after being plucked by the magazine from the mean streets of Mosul in 2006. In 2015-2016, I was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and since 2014, I have taught at Yale and served as a fellow of Davenport College. I've also written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and many other publications in the United States and overseas. For an archive of my writings, see my personal site. I was educated at Deep Springs College, Harvard University, The American University in Cairo, and Indiana University.

Location

United States

Introduction

I'm a National Correspondent at The Atlantic and lecturer in political science at Yale University. I joined The Atlantic after being plucked by the magazine from the mean streets of Mosul in 2006. In 2015-2016, I was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and since 2014, I have taught at Yale and served as a fellow of Davenport College. I've also written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and many other publications in the United States and overseas. For an archive of my writings, see my personal site. I was educated at Deep Springs College, Harvard University, The American University in Cairo, and Indiana University.