Sawaleef
Analyses, commentary, and updates
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How Do You See the World? (on writing from a distance)
We foreign correspondents rarely see the impact of our work. Located thousands of miles from the office, neither fully here nor fully there, we are disconnected, disjointed, filing our work off into the ether. A rare visit to The Christian Science Monitor and an exhibit bringing Maan, Jordan to Boston, gave me an opportunity to see the true power of the written word.
Finding the Values in Middle East News—aka Why I Write
Talking about values does not make the Middle East and North Africa a kinder place—it makes it a knowable place. This is my mission.