People are asking how the NYT ISIS reporter didn’t fact-check that her subject wasn’t actually in ISIS, but she blocked people years ago when we’d ask why she uses Google Translate to share live ISIS updates (she’d screenshot from the app).

Her work was reckless from the jump. https://twitter.com/stewglobal/status/1309581575412232198

This is to say nothing of the lack of ethics in her work. A letter from the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the largest institutional body of scholars of the region, condemning her for looting 16,000 documents out of Iraq w/o permission: https://mesana.org/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom/2018/05/02/acquisition-and-unethical-use-of-documents-removed-from-iraq-by-rukmini-callimachi

“The East is a career”

— Edward Said, who passed away 17 years ago today