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Ben Ehrenreich’s New Palestine Book Explores Life on “Planet Hebron”
The Intercept
When I moved to Lebanon in 1972, a joke was doing the rounds about an…
Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
The Intercept
The conviction that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while…
Nagmachons
Times Literary Supplement
Policemen with truncheons in Ferguson, Missouri, bash African American protestors. A Predator drone bombs a…
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About the Author
Charles Glass is a broadcaster, journalist and writer, who began his journalistic career in 1973 at the ABC News Beirut bureau with Peter Jennings. He covered the October Arab-Israeli War on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts. He also covered civil war in Lebanon, where artillery fire wounded him in 1976. He was ABC News Chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993. Since 1993, he has been a freelance writer in Paris, Tuscany, Venice and London, regularly covering the Middle East, the Balkans, southeast Asia and the Mediterranean region. He has also published books, short stories, essays and articles in the United States and Europe.