Accessibility links
'Sand Cafe' Offers Fictional Take on Gulf War Reporting Journalist Neil MacFarquhar is a veteran Middle East foreign correspondent and was Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times. Next, he will cover Islam in North America for the Times. His new novel The Sand Cafe is set in Saudi Arabia and examines the day-to-day reporting life of foreign correspondents in the Middle East during the Gulf War.

Books

'Sand Cafe' Offers Fictional Take on Gulf War Reporting

Heard on Fresh Air

Fresh Air

'Sand Cafe' Offers Fictional Take on Gulf War Reporting

Listen
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5340413/5340414" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Journalist Neil MacFarquhar is a veteran Middle East foreign correspondent and was Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times. Next, he will cover Islam in North America for the Times. His new novel The Sand Cafe is set in Saudi Arabia and examines the day-to-day reporting life of foreign correspondents in the Middle East during the Gulf War.

The Sand Cafe
By Neil Macfarquhar

Buy Featured Book

Title
The Sand Cafe
Author
Neil Macfarquhar

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How?