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Mohamad Bazzi is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University and former Middle East Bureau Chief at Newsday, where he was the lead writer on the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath. A former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he is writing a book on the proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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