found: Goodreads.com, Feb. 9, 2010 (writer and correspondent; worked at Newsday's New York City edition for seven years during the era; later moved to South Asia, writing on topics such as militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan, hand-painted Bollywood movie posters, etc.; reported from Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, and Libya between 2005 and 2008, during which time he made a 6-month journey of the river Nile, from Lake Victoria to Mediterranean Sea, through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt; now based in South Asia, contributing articles on science and the environment to National Geographic news)