TY McCORMICK is an editor at Foreign Affairs, the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. A former foreign correspondent in Nairobi and before that in Cairo, he has reported from more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Africa editor of Foreign Policy magazine, where he led a team of reporters that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for a series on African migration. He has also written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, New Republic, and National Geographic, among others. Beyond the Sand and Sea, about a family of Somali refugees' 30-year odyssey to reach the United States, is his first book.

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