Scott Peterson

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Scott Peterson is the Istanbul Bureau Chief for The Christian Science Monitor. He has been the paper’s Middle East correspondent, based in Amman, Jordan, and its Moscow Bureau Chief. One of the most well-traveled and experience foreign correspondents of his generation, he has journeyed to Iran more than thirty times since 1996. Peterson won a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America for his reporting from Iraq. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Me Against My Brother: A War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda and a photographer for Getty Images.

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Books by Scott Peterson

Let the Swords Encircle Me

Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines

By Scott Peterson

NO OTHER COUNTRY SO DOMINATES THE HEADLINES: Iran is portrayed as a nuclear threat, a terrorist nation, a charter member of the Axis of Evil bent on the destruction of Israel. But behind those headlines—and the fierce rhetoric of Iran’s most hard-line leaders—is a proud nation with a 2,500-year h...

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