OH, AND HEY, YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER now if you’re into that sort of thing.

There are lots of other good Middle East feeds, too, including my old friend Noah Pollak, one of the main “characters” in my book; Michael Young at Beirut’s Daily Star; Tony Badran, who is also from Lebanon, at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Lee Smith, author of the outstanding book The Strong Horse.