Mary Anne Weaver was a Fellow at CUNY’s Leon Levy Center for Biography (2008-2009) and is the author of Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (newly titled, in 2010, Pakistan: Deep Inside the World’s Most Frightening State) and A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam. She was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2007; and a Guggenheim Fellow and the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for 2004-2005. A long-time foreign correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, her work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine. A specialist in South Asian and Middle Eastern affairs, and political and militant Islam, she has reported from some 30 countries over as many years, based in New Delhi, Cairo, Athens, and Bangkok. Weaver has a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from Pennsylvania State University and is a Master of Arts candidate in Arab Affairs at the American University in Cairo.