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Writer of fiction, non-fiction, and journalism. Author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

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Joined February 2011
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    Dec 15

    I'm biased, but this is the most interesting arms investigation job going 🙂 Please do come & work with CAR: we're not necessarily looking for weapons specialists, but for brilliant investigators with contacts ranging from rebels to CEOs, able to operate from Taiz to Tortola

    Vacancy Alert: 📢 CAR seeks a Senior Investigator to join its Enhanced Investigations Unit. Be part of CAR's work on human, financial, and logistical networks involved in illicit weapon transfers. Job description available at Deadline e.o.d: 23rd Jan 2022.
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    14 hours ago

    Just received a rejection from a postdoc application. They had 850 applicants for 5 slots. Fun fact: they charged $40 to apply meaning they made $34k on application fees!

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    12 hours ago

    If there’s a reason for the lag, I’d love to hear it. I don’t care how complex, I’m trying to hear some fact-based reason that this made sense to someone.

    You gotta be kidding me
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  5. 12 hours ago

    Interesting development in Yemen.

    A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was smuggled into last year and named the ambassador to the country’s Houthi-rebel-controlled areas. Now, the Houthis want to send him back to Tehran, Middle Eastern and Western officials said
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  6. Dec 16

    Great book!!

    Spoiler: It's Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World
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    Dec 15

    Footage recorded this morning in Lamar, Colorado, where the recorded wind gusts as high as 107 mph.

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    I'm setting in my office with no power. This is what it looks like outside. Remind me of why I spend so much time in Southeastern Colorado.
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    Dec 15

    Today’s post-apocalyptic Colorado forecast.

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  9. Dec 15

    How many "historical" weather days does it take to realize this may be the new normal? --> "The conditions are anticipated to be so severe that the National Weather Service is calling it a “historical weather day.”

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  10. Dec 15

    What's being done in our name. (What the American public doesn't see, it doesn't care about - and it largely doesn't see this war. Which, by the way, hasn't ended.)

    Children or fighters? "Talon Anvil started directing drone cameras away from targets shortly before a strike hit, preventing the collection of video evidence"
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  11. Dec 15

    Children or fighters? "Talon Anvil started directing drone cameras away from targets shortly before a strike hit, preventing the collection of video evidence"

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  12. Dec 15

    From this weekend - the US' air and drone wars have serious issues --> "A senior military official with direct knowledge of the task force said that what counted as an “imminent threat” was extremely subjective"

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  13. Dec 15

    I suspect the US will soon regret not making at-home Covid tests more readily available. Shocking that this is the state of affairs nearly two years into this nightmare.

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  14. Dec 15

    Everything you've heard about "When We Cease to Understand the World" is true. An incredible book. I got my copy from

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    Dec 15

    Latest UN briefing by Grundberg is smartest yet by any UN Envoy. Strong grasp of escalating challenges. Finally admits the Catch-22: unrealistic preconditions to talks can only be de-conflicted by talks. So, outlines fresh approach

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  16. Dec 15

    I miss essays and columns by both Hitchens and Hunter S. Thompson. Both of whom would be required reading in our current political moment.

    Christopher Hitchens died 10 years ago today. His pieces for the LRB – in which familiar bêtes noires rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations incl. P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret & Isaiah Berlin – are collected in ’ A HITCH IN TIME:
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    Dec 15

    Christopher Hitchens died 10 years ago today. His pieces for the LRB – in which familiar bêtes noires rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations incl. P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret & Isaiah Berlin – are collected in ’ A HITCH IN TIME:

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    Dec 15

    COME WORK WITH US: Brookings Foreign Policy is looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to conduct policy-relevant research for the 2022-2023 academic year. Apply here by January 3:

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    Dec 15

    My former role at is open in the . This was and is one of the best jobs in the world. There is deep work to be done and a wealth of people to build with. Also included: figs, midnight meetings, diwaniyas, qahwa. Abaya optional.

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    Dec 14

    Humphrey Davies, an award-winning translator into English of some of the most important and renowned works of Arabic literature, including novels by the Egyptian Nobelist Naguib Mahfouz, has died. He was 74.

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    Dec 14

    Congratulations , one of the best if not the BEST people who wrote on

    Big congratulations to our excellent colleagues on their promotions. to Professor and Nadine Ehlers and Dinesh Wadiwel to Associate Professor. Each and all three are that wonderful combination of great talent, hard work and collegiality.
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