Stephan Faris has written from Africa, the Middle East, and China for publications including Time, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly, Salon and Monocle. He has covered war in Liberia, the rise of Islamists in Somalia, genocide trials in Rwanda, oil woes in Nigeria, refugees from Darfur, and Internet censorship in China. In the spring of 2003, he covered the invasion of Iraq for the New York Daily News as an unembedded reporter in the Kurdish North. He returned to Baghdad a year later for Time Magazine. He now lives in Rome, where he contributes to Fortune and travels to Africa and China.

He holds an undergraduate degree in optical engineering from The University of Arizona, and a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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