'Fractured Lands' Author Scott Anderson Appears on Democracy Now!

As conflicts from Iraq to Syria have forced a record 60 million people around the world to flee their homes and become refugees, independent news program Democracy Now! spoke with Scott Anderson about his in-depth new report, "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart."

Occupying the entire print edition of this week's New York Times Magazine, it examines what has happened in the region in the past 13 years since the the U.S. invaded Iraq through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Anderson is also author of the book, "Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East."