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REESE ERLICH is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books on foreign policy, most recently Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire . In 2012, the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California, gave Erlich an Explanatory Journalism Award for his radio documentary titled “Inside the Syrian Uprising.” In 2006 Erlich shared a prestigious Peabody Award. Currently, he works as a full-time freelance journalist and holds the position of special correspondent with GlobalPost. He also reports regularly for National Public Radio, Radio Deutsche Welle, and CBS Radio News. His articles on the Middle East have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor , GlobalPost , Atlantic Online , and Vanity Fair Online .