The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood is an intrepid war reporter, a polymath, and a inguist, who goes “where everything’s a mess . . . and things are changing really, really fast.”
In this conversation, we discuss: Wood’s high-risk strategy covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere; his reporting and insights from the Middle East before and after October 7th; his recent in-depth, revealing conversations with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman; his reporting on ISIS; his case for “platforming your enemies;” living without fear in a world full of danger; and questions from the audience.
About Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood has been a writer at The Atlantic since 2006.
Wood’s book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, is based on his deep immersion in Islam and his meetings with the “seducers” of ISIS.
He was trained as a linguist and is either fluent in, or has a working knowledge of, Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Russian, Turkic languages, German, Italian, and more.
Among other honors, Wood has received fellowships from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide, and he led Nazi-hunting expeditions to Paraguay for the History Channel.
In addition to writing for The Atlantic, he teaches at Yale University and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.