ID3 vTOPE NPRTCOM TALB Fresh Air from WHYYTIT2 8 'Sand Cafe' Offers Fictional Take on Gulf War ReportingTCOP 2006TRCK 3TCON COMM nprComment Journalist Neil MacFarquhar is a veteran Middle East foreign correspondent and was Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times. Next, he will cover Islam in North America for the Times. His new novel The Sand Cafe is set in Saudi Arabia and examines the day-to-day reporting life of foreign correspondents in the Middle East during the Gulf War.TPE1 NPRTYER 2006 P , a +" ( <.pY _ ( #'Ps