Ben Gilbert is a Beirut-based journalist specialized in the Middle East and the Arabic-speaking world. He covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and reported on the 2011 Arab uprisings for public radio's international affairs program, "The World." His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, US News and World eport, Global Post, NBC.com and on NPR.
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