Mohamad Bazzi ( ar, محمد بزي) is a

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journalist. He is the former Middle East bureau chief at ''

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'' and a current faculty member of

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. Bazzi was the 2007-2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the

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. He is currently an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the

. While at ''Newsday'' Bazzi covered the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, where he focused on militant Islamic movements, regional politics, and the war on terrorism. He was

's lead writer on the

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war and its aftermath. He also covered the 2000 Palestinian uprising, the 2001 war in Afghanistan, and the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.CFR Bazzi Bio

Biography

Mohamad Bazzi left his native

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for the United States in 1985, when he was 10 years old. He began his journalism career in middle school writing for community newspapers in Queens. As a high school student he wrote more than 30 stories for ''New Youth Connections'' (now ''YCteen''), New York's citywide magazine by and for teens published by Youth Communication. He became a

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in 1994. He graduated

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in 1997 from

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. Bazzi was born in

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. He came to the U.S. with an older brother; another brother is in France, yet another is in Spain, and their parents and a sister remain in Lebanon. English is Bazzi's third language; he learned both

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and French as a child in Lebanon, and English after he came to the United States. Bazzi became a staff writer for ''Newsday'' in 1998. In ten years on staff at ''Newsday'', he was a metro reporter in New York City and served as the paper's

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bureau chief. His articles and commentaries on the Middle East have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Salon, Newark Star-Ledger, and The National (Abu Dhabi). Among Bazzi's awards are the 2008 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting and analysis on foreign affairs; the 2008 American Academy of Religion Award for in-depth reporting on religion; the 2005 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize; the 2004 News Analysis Award from the NY Society of the Silurians; the 2004 James Aronson Award for social justice journalism; the 2003 Silver Medal from the United Nations Correspondents Association; and the 2002 Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting on South Asia.

Awards

* 2008 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting and analysis on foreign affairs from the American Academy of Diplomacy * American Academy of Religion Award for in-depth reporting on religion * 2005 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize from the United Nations Correspondents Association * James Aronson Award for social justice journalism from

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* 2002 Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting on South Asia from the

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* Young Reporter of the Year Award from the New York Press Club

References

External links

Column archive
at ''

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Mohamad Bazzi, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies

2008 Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis of Foreign Affairs

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2009 CUNY Baccalaureate Commencement Keynote Speech: Mohamad Bazzi
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