My name is Jim Rupert. I’m an American foreign correspondent, now in Washington after eight years in South Asia. (The picture at the top of the page is from the Kunar Valley 
of Afghanistan, one of the countries I’ve covered often over the years.) I got hooked on living and working abroad when I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in 1980-82. In the roughly 30 years since, I’ve lived in South and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. On these pages, I’m gathering some of the stories I’ve found.
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Jim Rupert
Foreign affairs correspondent & editor
I've reported -- mainly for the Washington Post, Newsday and Bloomberg News -- from more than 70 countries over 30 years.
I was astonished to first meet the Muslim world as a Peace Corps teacher in Morocco, and I've continued to focus on it as a journalist. I've lived in South and Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, focusing often on the tormented relationships between Islamic lands and the largely Christian nations that once colonized them.
(Photo: Girls in the village of Pashki, in Afghanistan's Nuristan province, watch an arriving visitor from the roof of a home. By Jim Rupert, March 2007.)
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Thank you for starting this blog. I really enjoy your writing, your insight, and your perspective. Please add me to the list to be notified when your blog is updated. May you and yours be blessed, Traci