to Cairo which they took alongside James Horwitz. Back in Moscow, Copetas met actor Brian Cox who was there to direct a production of "The Crucible" with students from the Moscow Art Theatre in 1989. Copetas agreed to the role of ersatz casting director for his friend and found Nora Ivanovna, a Black Russian singer, to play Tituba, the slave-woman from Barbados. In 1989, Copetas was named Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism, a program designed to provide formal business and economics training for journalists at mid-career. He reported on the ground in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq during the First Gulf War and then the Balkan conflict in Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Croatia during the late 1990s for the Wall Street Journal with colleague Daniel Pearl. Other long-term postings included China and Southeast Asia. He was later embedded with British forces during the Second Gulf War. In 1991, he became a staff reporter on the Wall Street Journal and went on to create and manage the sports section of The Wall Street Journal Europe, helping develop the first weekend section for the paper and extensively covering the Olympic corruption scandal. He was briefly arrested in Singapore based on an Australian hold-and-detain order that claimed he was a terrorist suspect. “The Great Olympic Swindle” recounts the harassment that Copetas and his family subsequently suffered in the hopes that he would hold off publishing his story in the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, he joined Bloomberg LP as a senior writer covering global financial news and events across all Bloomberg News platforms, including Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Markets magazine and Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. He held posts in Europe, Russia, Middle East and China. In 2009, he was briefly detained in Dubai while there as senior writer for Bloomberg News working on a story under former Associated Press Executive Editor William Ahearn. At the time, many foreign journalists were complaining that they had “been told to avoid writing negative stories” about the UAE's economy and the UAE was on the brink of adopting a new media law which forbade the publication of stories that were deemed to be harmful to the national economy. Bloomberg pulled the story “because of the threat of losing their wire terminals throughout the Middle East, being barred from press releases and press gatherings, having their assets in Dubai seized” Copetas was subsequently dismissed from Bloomberg as