Stack was 25 years old when she was sent to cover Afghanistan for the Los Angeles Times. Before that she was a national correspondent in Houston for the paper, and had no foreign or war reporting experience. She doesn’t clearly explain her quick promotion. She just says that she was in the right place at the right time—vacationing in Paris on 9/11.
In “Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War,” Stack shares her experiences reporting in the Middle East from 2001 to 2006. She begins in Afghanistan at the start of the U.S. invasion and concludes just after the end of Lebanon’s 2006 conflict with Israel. In between she covers war, terrorism and political Islam from places such as Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Egypt.
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