About Stephen Glain

Stephen Glain is a writer and journalist based in Washington, DC. He is currently working on a book about the militarization of US foreign policy.

Glain has been a journalist for twenty years, beginning with his first job as the transportation reporter for the Nashville Business Journal. In 1987, he packed up his grip and moved to Hong Kong, where he was hired as a business reporter for the local South China Morning Post. In 1991, he joined the Wall Street Journal, which assigned him to cover South Korea. He remained as a Journal foreign correspondent for the next decade, covering Asia and the Middle East from bases in Seoul, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, and Amman.

In 2001 he took a book leave to write Dreaming of Damascus: Arab Voices in a Region of Turmoil (John Murray, UK). Its updated, US edition, published under the title Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of the Arab World (St. Martin's Press), was named the best book of 2004 by online magazine The Globalist.

His articles on US foreign policy, East Asia, and the Arab world have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the Financial Times, Gourmet Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Institutional Investor, The Globalist, Survival, and ForeignPpolicy.com. He has been a contributing editor and reporter for several publications, including Newsweek, the Abu Dhabi-based English-language The National, and Al Majalla.

Glain lives with his wife Christina Balis and son John Atticus.