Jeffrey Fleishman is the Cairo bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. A 2002 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing. He was previously Berlin bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times and Rome bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been a finalist for the Goldsmith Award, and a finalist for The Center for Public Integrity's International Investigative Reporting Award. His first novel, Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad, was published in 2009.

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