Warning, a long article that may be a bit educational:
Yes and yes Engineer but well worth the effort of reading.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is also a lecturer in political science at Yale University, a contributing editor to The Atlantic and The New Republic, and books editor of Pacific Standard.
He was a reporter at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh in 1999, then lived and wrote in the Middle East from 2002 to 2006. He has received fellowships from the Social Sciences Research Council (2002-2003), the South Asian Journalists Association (2009), the East-West Center (2009-2010), and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide (2013-2014). He has appeared many times on television and radio (CNN, ABC, BBC, MSNBC, et al.), was the screenwriter of a Sundance Official Selection (2010, short film), and led a Nazi-hunting expedition to Paraguay for a History Channel special in 2009.
Graeme attended Deep Springs College, Harvard, Indiana University, and the American University in Cairo.