BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2008 – 2009

Mary Anne Weaver

For a biography of Ziad Jarrah

Mary Anne Weaver, author of Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan and A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam, was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2007. She was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2004 – 2005. A longtime foreign correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, she has also published in The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine. A specialist in South Asian and Middle Eastern affairs, and political and militant Islam, she has reported from some thirty countries over the last twenty-five years, based in New Delhi, Cairo, Athens, and Bangkok. The Strange Journey of Ziad Jarrah: The Story of a Terrorist is the biography on the most improbable of the September 11th pilots. It gleans lessons on the way in which the profile of a terrorist has changed.