Win a Trip With Andrew Lee Butters

If columnist Nicholas Kristof can use the New York Times to troll for college-age interns, I might as well use this website to announce a job opening.

I'm looking for a paid, full-time, Lebanese reporting assistant/translator for help on articles, a book project, and administrative work.

If you are a regular reader of the Middle East Blog, you probably have a good idea of the kind of work we would do together, and the qualities I'm looking for in an assistant. Candidates should be adventurous, kind and curious, as well as smarter and more organized than I am. (The latter qualities shouldn't be too difficult to find.) He or she should also be bilingual in Arabic and English, have a degree from an American, British, or top Lebanese university, and previous experience in journalism or a demonstrable knowledge of regional politics and culture.

Your first test as a would-be reporter is to find my e-mail address and send me a cover letter and resume.

Those of you who enjoy pointing out the flaws in my writing and the failings in my logic: here's your chance to set me straight. But please, you have to live in Lebanon. Sorry, Jacob Blues.

--Andrew Lee Butters/Beirut