Sarah Katz

Sarah Katz is a cybersecurity technical writer at Microsoft. She previously worked as a senior cybersecurity analyst at NASA. She holds a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from UC Berkeley and a master's degree in counterterrorism with a specialization in Persian language and Iranian area studies.

How the Anti-West Axis Leverages Western Guilt

The United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have widely cast the image of America as the great imperialist evil of the modern era....

Ensuring Israeli Security and Palestinian Liberation to Avert World War

The post-October 7 Israel-Hamas war highlights perhaps the sheerest contemporary example of what thinkers like Edward Said and Samuel P. Huntington would have considered...

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A Decade of Teacher Shortages in Tajikistan

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