freelance journalist, writer, eater, adventurista, bon vivantTumblr (3.0; @haleysweetwards)http://www.haleyedwards.com/<p>I’m a freelance writer living and working in the Caucasus and the Middle East. Over the course of my travels, I’ve chewed qat with Yemeni sheikhs, trekked with Bedouins in the Sahara, weathered tear-gassings in Srinagar and Sana&#8217;a, back-country skied in the Rockies, climbed to prehistoric cave paintings in Somaliland, sailed through the Panama Canal, picnicked in the Mayan pyramids and, just once, threw myself out of a plane over Washington State.</p> <p>My reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Foreign Policy.com, New York Magazine online, The National, New York Times.com, Slate, and Mental Floss.</p> <p>I lived in, and reported from, Yemen on and off from 2009 to spring 2011, thanks in part to a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Fellowship. I&#8217;ve been grossly over-educated at Yale (BA philosophy &amp; history) and Columbia (MA journalism &amp; politics), where I learned, among other things, how to drink whiskey, ski the giant slalom, and pretend I understand Heidegger. I currently live in Tbilisi, Georgia.</p>http://www.haleyedwards.com/post/906717951http://www.haleyedwards.com/post/906717951Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:23:00 -0400