Me, Interviewed

Jamie Weinstein at The Daily Caller interviewed me about Egypt, Iran, and my new book Where the West Ends. You can read the whole thing over there, but here’s part of it.

Getting to your new book, “Where the West Ends,” what compelled you to write it?

I didn’t plan on writing and publishing “Where the West Ends” until I had already completed all the field work that went into it. I realized two years ago that I had spent a great deal of time on the part of our planet between Turkey and Russia,...