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Andrew Lee Butters

Andrew Lee Butters

Andrew Lee Butters is an associate professor of practice in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief for Time magazine and spent a decade covering every major country and conflict in the region, from the war in Iraq to the Arab Spring.

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Teaching Middle East Journalism in the Midst of a Crackdown

Teaching Middle East Journalism in the Midst of a Crackdown

In a scene I would have found familiar in Cairo, Tehran or the West Bank, the university’s president and the governor of Texas sent dozens of state troopers in riot gear marching down the pedestrian thoroughfare lined with mossy oak trees that is the heart of student life on campus.

Andrew Lee Butters