Annia Ciezadlo is the author of the award-winning book Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War (Free Press, 2011). She was a special correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Baghdad and The New Republic in Beirut. Her writing on culture, politics, and the Middle East has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, Time, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Granta.com.