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Glain, Stephen

Stephen Glain has been a journalist for more than twenty-five years, beginning in Hong Kong where he worked for local South China Morning Post and the International Herald Tribune before settling at the Wall Street Journal. For the next ten years, as a Journal correspondent, Glain covered Asia and the Middle East from bureaus in Seoul, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Amman. Now based in Paris, he has reported and interpreted global affairs for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Salon, The Nation, Institutional Investor and other publications.

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20070601135952 Stephen Glain,, Lawrence Durrell, Slightly Foxed Issue 14 - Mark Handley

Twilight of a Golden Age

Stephen Glain on Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

I attacked my new assignment as a Middle East correspondent with the alacrity of a baying hound running down a wanted man. I loaded up on the standard books on the region by all the standard experts: Hitti, Hourani, Nutting, Glubb, Fromkin, Shlaim, Lewis. I consumed their separate narratives, cross-referencing one against the other and triangulating each for bias. I was a machine in perpetual motion; the more I read, the more I needed to know. By the end of my three-year stint, I had accumulated a working library of stolid non-fiction accounts of the Middle East, from the days of the Caliphate to the Second Intifada. In 2001 I took leave to write my own book.

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