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Claude Salhani is a journalist, author and political analyst based in the Middle East,
and Washington, DC. and specializes in Middle East politics, politicized Islam and
terrorism.
He is the former editor of the Middle East Times and a long-time contributor to the
Commentary pages of the Washington Times and several other publications.
He is the former International Editor with United Press International and also ran
UPI's Terrorism & Security Desks.
He appears on a number of radio and television networks as a political commentator
-- including CNN, French radio and TV, Canadian radio and TV (in English
and French), al-Hurra and other Middle East medias. He is a senior associate at the
Washington, D.C.-based Institute of World Affairs and a member of the London-based
International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS).
Over a span of some 30 years Mr. Salhani has traveled to 84 countries, covered 12 wars
and interviewed numerous world leaders. His reports have been published in major
newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Times (London), The San
Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The San Diego Union Tribune, The
Washington Post, Foreign Service Journal, Middle East Policy Journal, Salon.com, The
American Conservative and many others.
He is the author of Black September to Desert Storm; While the Arab World Slept: the
impact of the Bush years on the Middle East, and contributing author of The Iraq War.
His latest book, Islam Without a Veil, was published in 2011.
Mr. Salhani was based in Beirut, Cairo, Paris, Brussels, London, New York and
Washington, DC. His assignments included major Middle East conflicts, the
Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Lebanese Civil War, the insurgency in
Oman’s Dhofar region, the Iraq-Iran War, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (1982)
and subsequent siege of Beirut, the first Gulf War, the Czech Velvet Revolution
and the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and most recently,
the war in Iraq, US elections and other major stories.
He was wounded three times while reporting on various Mideast conflicts. He
was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the bombing of the U.S.
Marine barracks in Beirut.
Mr. Salhani is fluent in English, French, Italian, Arabic and has a working
knowledge of Spanish. He studied in the Master’s in Conflict Resolution
program at Royal Roads University, in Victoria, Canada.
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