Living Interesting Lives: Daily Life Amidst Coup D’etat and Revolution

Wilson Center NOW

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Wilson Center Middle East Fellows Marina and David Ottaway. They discuss their new book they co-authored with their sons, “https://www.amazon.com/LIVING-INTERESTING-LIVES-Marina-Ottaway/dp/B0D8RMJ2YL/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3J0FWIpI9tl_a4D0CKjdwuJp6QQ2e4TCh9hAT4rwao46aG8_yy7eayDxX4ln0wuuCzMcie2F5tLgFi9YTeBsW6PVD2oCRjRQvqZmU3kGz-VPXtcuCvp0MT9ZpNVEeTunQqq7IVS6ELE6O_MpFkn0KAW7TmM3PEALAH54neBhC_uDkjgjx4s2wWziZeqwuh4qEsQ_YZysvh52IUvgbSsxpiS37V4HiqoSlSiz_d_iZjI.ad4RRihqXRI-tIPN_at-sl8Qmh9QEQPBYxpmERX7xhs&dib_tag=se&qid=1734365054&refinements=p_27%3ADavid+Ottaway&s=books&sr=1-2. Click or tap if you trust this link." href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLIVING-INTERESTING-LIVES-Marina-Ottaway%2Fdp%2FB0D8RMJ2YL%2Fref%3Dsr_1_2%3Fdib%3DeyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3J0FWIpI9tl_a4D0CKjdwuJp6QQ2e4TCh9hAT4rwao46aG8_yy7eayDxX4ln0wuuCzMcie2F5tLgFi9YTeBsW6PVD2oCRjRQvqZmU3kGz-VPXtcuCvp0MT9ZpNVEeTunQqq7IVS6ELE6O_MpFkn0KAW7TmM3PEALAH54neBhC_uDkjgjx4s2wWziZeqwuh4qEsQ_YZysvh52IUvgbSsxpiS37V4HiqoSlSiz_d_iZjI.ad4RRihqXRI-tIPN_at-sl8Qmh9QEQPBYxpmERX7xhs%26dib_tag%3Dse%26qid%3D1734365054%26refinements%3Dp_27%253ADavid%2BOttaway%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-2&data=05%7C02%7CShaarona.Harris%40wilsoncenter.org%7Cd4ed5bbf96f247c9f8df08dd20470b0c%7C84dfdf3abb4140edb7319f6cc84e7d91%7C0%7C0%7C638702211686682851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TUCCGQEo3gx0TvwSNFyZwZrmvnUr8lGtKs%2FG7ms8oIU%3D&reserved=0" rel="noopener noreferrer">Living Interesting Lives: A Memoir.” The book, “covers over 20 years of the life of a Washington Post foreign correspondent and his family, working and trying to make a home and bring up small children in various hot news spots in Africa and the Middle East while also reflecting on the strange normalcy of daily life in the midst of coups d’etat and revolutions.”