Michael Maren is currently a filmmaker. He worked in Somalia for USAID in the early 1980s and returned as a journalist from 1993 to 1996. He documented his experience there in The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity (Free Press).
Why Somalia Matters
A new book is a powerful antidote to the view of Somalia as the locus of cartoonish violence and exotic pirates.
