BOSTON, Mass. — GlobalPost Middle East editor Peter Gelling discusses the protests in Cairo and Libya that erupted in reaction to an anti-Islam film, and the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that led to the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.

JERUSALEM — In all the photographs that materialized today, which transformed the deeply private Chris Stevens into a public figure, his reserve and his intense presence are wholly perceptible, that rock solid part of him completely immutable. Not a man given to flights of revelation, Chris's face nevertheless always revealed his true self — decent, sincere, guarded.