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Scott Daniel Peterson (born c. 1966) is an author and journalist. He graduated from Yale University in 1988 with a degree in English and was a member of Manuscript Society in his senior year. He was a Middle East correspondent for the ''Daily Telegraph'' but as of 2000 was a staff writer and Moscow bureau chief for the ''Christian Science Monitor''. His first book, ''Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda'' (2001), is an account of his experiences and observations during a decade of reporting from Sub-Saharan Africa. His second book, ''Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines'' (2010), is based on more than thirty extended reporting trips to Iran. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://csmonitor.tumblr.com/post/7842440290/staff-writer-scott-peterson-has-followed-the )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://muckrack.com/peterson__scott )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nejatngo.org/en/blogv.aspx?id=32 )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.s-peterson.com/index.php#mi=1&pt=0&pi=25&s=0&p=0&a=0&at=0 )〕 ==Career Summary== After his stint as a Middle East correspondent working on Iran issues for the Christian Science Monitor in Amman, then as Moscow Bureau Chief, Scott Petersen started work as the Bureau Chief in Istanbul. Besides, he also works as a photographer for Getty Images. His work across three continents spanning over two decades, reporting and photographing on "power and conflict" presented in coherent narratives, has made him one of the most experienced and widely traveled foreign correspondent of his time. His extensive travels to Iran, crossing more than 30 times, produced his book, Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 2010), based on Iran's politics, history, and culture. The book was awarded as one of the "Best Books of 2010" by Publisher's Weekly. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Peterson/e/B001KDT7GE )〕 During his career as a photo-journalist, he has covered, Algiers, Beirut, and the entire Russia and the Central Asia. In 1999 he had to travel with the Talibans in Afghanistan. During his assignment in Iraq at the time of the Kurdish Revolt in 1991, he had to flee the country with more than a million Kurds when the resistance army was defeated at the hands of Saddam Hussein's forces. In 2002, Scott's work in Northern Iraq won him the "Citation of Excellence" award from the Overseas Press Club of America. He also worked for The Daily Telegraph (London) covering the Former Yugoslavia on conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia. His career assignments have taken Scott on a mind-boggling adventures like traveling 1000 miles across the Congo River on a barge and daring the Sahara Desert on his motorcycle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Peterson (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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