After earning her degree, she worked as an editor at
The New York Observer until 2007, when she received a fellowship from the
Institute of Current World Affairs to conduct research in Turkey. While in Istanbul, she realized many misconceptions of how Americans view themselves versus how outsiders view them. This was the basis for her 2017 book,
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World. Her debut book about American misconceptions post 9/11 was a finalist for the 2018
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. She also visited Greece, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan to investigate how American influence caused trouble and misfortune for civilians in these countries. In 2020, she accepted a visiting professorship position at
Princeton University as their Ferris Professor of Journalism. She is also a contributing writer for
The New York Times Magazine and Practitioner-in-Residence at
New York University’s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. ==Bibliography==