FOR more than 25 years, Michael Logozzo, a native of Brooklyn, lived overseas, working various jobs — as a chef in Venice and in Rome, as a magazine editor in Paris and as a television host and fund-raiser in Warsaw. In 2003, he moved into a guarded compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, overseeing the acquisition of property for Roshan, a telecommunications company, and helping run a charitable program to feed Afghan children.
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AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE After two days of traveling, Michael Logozzo arrived home expecting to see a furnished apartment.
But as the battle against the Taliban intensified, and car bombings and kidnappings increased, members of Mr. Logozzo’s large extended family in New York City — he has 14 brothers and sisters — began lobbying him to come home.
“They thought it was insane that I would take a job there to begin with, and that it was more insane to stay longer than my original six-month commitment,” he said. “None of them have the travel bug I do, and they were scared for my safety.”
