Michael J. Totten
Michael J. Totten is a foreign correspondent and foreign-policy analyst who has reported from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, City Journal, LA Weekly, the Jerusalem Post, Beirut's Daily Star, Reason, Azure, and the Australian edition of Newsweek.
He won the Week 's Blogger of the Year award in 2006 for his dispatches from the Middle East, and the Weblog Awards consecutively in 2007 and 2008 for Best Middle East or Africa blog.
He is writing a book about revolution, terrorism, and war in the Middle East, and is a former resident of Beirut.
Recent Blog Posts
- Is Libya Long for This World?, May 21 2012
- Israel Builds a Wall in the North, May 02 2012
- The Saudis Want to Arm an Insurgency, Feb 24 2012
- Syrian Refugees in Israel?, Jan 10 2012
- The Endless Face-off Over the Veil, Jan 05 2012
- “Sin-Free” Egyptian Tourism?, Dec 12 2011
- Winds of Change in the Levant, Nov 27 2011
- The Arab League Suspends Syria, Nov 13 2011
- Israel Needs a Death Penalty for Terrorism, Oct 11 2011
- Assad Really Does Need to Go, Oct 10 2011
