Tewfik Mishlawi (1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Lebanese journalist who was known in the Middle East and Arab world.
Early life and career
Born 1935 in
Haifa
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, British Mandate Palestine, Mishlawi fled to Lebanon with his family during the
1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. Eventually becoming a naturalized Lebanese, Mishlawi studied economics at the
American University of Beirut
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(AUB). Mishlawi did research work in the field of journalism, involving such topics as foreign perceptions of the American news media and journalism from a third world perspective.
From 1963 to 1973, Mishlawi was deputy editor in chief of
The Daily Star, Lebanon's only English language daily newspaper. From 1973 to 1976, he worked as a staff reporter for the Beirut Bureau of the United Press International. From 1973 to 1985, he was Special Middle East correspondent for
The Wall Street Journal
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, providing hard news, analysis, and features. From 1977 to 1979, he was ad hoc correspondent for
BusinessWeek
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in New York City. From 1980 to 1983 he was special correspondent for
The Times
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in
London
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, providing hard news. From 1985 to 1992, he was director of training at the Center for Foreign Journalists in
Reston, Virginia
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Founded in 1964, Reston was influenced by the Garden City movem ...
.
Since returning to Lebanon in 1992, he had continued working on his own periodical, the Middle East Reporter (MER), a media digest that would translate and sum up the Arabic press for foreign diplomats and academics.
References
External links
Dailystar.com.lbPressgazette.co.ukIcfj.org
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Palestinian journalists
2012 deaths
1935 births
Lebanese journalists