He has covered Afghanistan’s war against the Taliban, politics, presidential and parliamentary elections, the first-ever banking scandal in the country, violence against women and violent protests that erupted after American soldiers burned copies of the Koran at Bagram Air Base. He was honored by The New York Times for his contribution to the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. With an interest in a range of topics including ethnic- and gender-based discrimination, he will study banking scandals, money laundering, corruption and the misuse of power by politicians. He is the 2014 Carroll Binder Nieman Fellow. The Binder Fund honors 1916 Harvard graduate Carroll Binder, who expanded the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, and his son, Carroll “Ted” Binder, a 1943 Harvard graduate.