Jeffrey Tayler

Jeffrey Tayler hiked the length of Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains for his National Geographic magazine article “Among the Berbers.” He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, a visiting writer at the Paris American Academy, and the Moscow correspondent for Bloomberg’s World View. He is also the author of six nonfiction travel books, including Glory in a Camel’s Eye, which recounts his three-month trek with Arab nomads down Morocco’s Draa Valley. An accomplished linguist, Jeffrey is fluent in many languages, including Russian, Arabic, and French. From 1988-1990 he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Marrakech. Since 1993 he has lived in Russia.