Reporter Borzou Daragahi is a foreign correspondent who spent several years covering the Middle East for the LA Times. He's now stationed in Cairo as the North Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times.
He recently wrote about how his perspective on his job has changed since becoming a father to a little girl named Samarra about 14 months ago. Borzou Daragahi joins the show from his home in Cairo.
Raising a family as a foreign correspondent in Cairo
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Take Two for May 7, 2013
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