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Ethan Chorin

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Ethan Chorin is a former US diplomat, political analyst, author, and environmental entrepreneur. From 2004 to 2006, he was one of a handful of US diplomats posted to Libya. Six years later, as codirector of an NGO, he became a witness to the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.

A widely respected expert on Libya, Chorin is the author of Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink, Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution and Translating Libya: In Search of the Libyan Short Story, and the translator of the forthcoming Katmandu’s Ocean. His work on Libya, the Middle East, and Iran has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Prospect, Forbes, Newsweek, and others. He has been a regular commentator on Libya for the BBC, and has also appeared on CNBC, CNN, CBS, and C-SPAN.

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