Beirut Bureau Chief for the New York Times; two-time Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent (2004 and 2010) for the Washington Post, and author of Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War and Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam
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