Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979 in

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) is an American staff writer for ''

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''. Prior to that he was a contributing editor there and has written for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and the '' International Herald Tribune''. Wood works also as a lecturer in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. In 2017, he won the Canadian

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction The Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in English. Since 1987 it is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Litera ...

, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship, for his book ''The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State''.

Early life and education

Wood was born in

. He grew up in

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and graduated from

St. Mark's School of Texas The St. Mark's School of Texas is a nonsectarian preparatory day school for boys in grades 1–12 in Dallas, Texas, United States, accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest. History St. Mark's traces its origins to the T ...

in 1997. He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at

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and

Deep Springs College Deep Springs College (known simply as Deep Springs or DS) is a private, selective two-year college in Deep Springs, California. With the number of undergraduates restricted to 26, the college is one of the smallest institutions of higher educat ...

before transferring to

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

to study African-American Studies and Philosophy graduating in 2001.

Notable articles

Scrubbed: The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management
– ''New York'' magazine, June 2013
Hell Is an Understatement
– ''The New Republic'', June 2014
How Gangs Took Over Prisons
– ''The Atlantic'', September 2014
What ISIS Really Wants
– ''The Atlantic'', March 2015
Donald Trump and the Apocalypse; Is Rome really ISIS’s “ultimate trophy”?
– ''The Atlantic'', February 2016
The United States is Now in the Midst of an Extended Moral Holiday
- ''The Atlantic'', June 2020
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
- ''The Atlantic'', November 2020
America Has Forgotten How to Forgive
- ''The Atlantic'', March 19, 2021

References

External links

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The New Republic author page

The Atlantic author page
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