The Looming Tower by Aron Wright

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Lawrence wright spent time in cairo as a young person during the via nam era. He says he was so eager to get out of the us that he walked across the street and took a job at an american university there. After two years, he left for egypt where he fell in love with the culture. "I never thought that it was going to determine the future of my life so importantly"

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

”There’s nothing more important about a person than their story. In a way, that’s who we are. And yet, memories fade and people die. So those stories disappear and the job of the journalist is to go out before that happens and accumulate the kinds of stories that are going to help us understand who we are, why we are, where we are right now in time, and try to thread those stories into a coherent narrative. In a way, you give it a kind of immortality. And that’s a big job. It’s a great privilege.”

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