The Middle East Institute is honored to present Roy Gutman, to discuss his new book, "How We Missed the Story; Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan," a narrative that exposes how and why the U.S. government, the United Nations, and the Western media "missed the story" in the leadup to 9/11.

Roy Gutman, a former senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (2002-2003), is an award-winning journalist who has reported on international affairs for more than three decades. He is currently foreign editor at the McClatchy Washington bureau.