Bureau chief for Newsweek (1993-2001), and author of "Chosen by God: A Brother's Journey" (2000), "A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place" (2003), "Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II" (2006), "In Search of the Last Czar" (2011), "Secrets of the Temple Mount" (2011) and "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" (2016).