He lived and worked in Egypt between 1993 and 2003, where he was editor of the Cairo Times, among other jobs. He held a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2008 and 2009, and is currently working on a book on the evolution of Iraq's Sunni insurgency.Steve is also interested in historically-themed computer and simulation gaming, and is a developer for Taleworlds.com, maker of the medieval role-playing game Mount&Blade.Steve can be contacted here.He Tweets at SteveNegusMasr. Blog/