Odd Karsten Tveit (born 17 December 1945) is a

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journalist, writer and economist. His speciality is the Middle East, a subject on which he has written several books. Tveit has been a foreign

correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

for the

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(NRK) in the Middle East through three periods, from 1979 to 1983, from 1990 to 1994, and from 2003 to 2007. Tveit has also served as a major in the

UNIFIL The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( ar, قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان, he, כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL ( ar, يونيفيل, he, יוניפי״ל), is a UN peacekeeping m ...

peacekeeping forces in

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

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Biography

Tveit has worked as a journalist for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation since 1973. To begin with he covered petroleum development in the

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. From 1977 Tveit has been attached to NRK's foreign editorial office ("utenriksredaksjonen").

Foreign correspondent

Cairo 1978

Tveit's first assignment as a foreign correspondent was in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

in 1978, a short-term replacement for Kjell Gjøstein Resi.

Beirut 1979–1983

When Tveit started on his first permanent period as a foreign correspondent for NRK, in 1979, he relocated NRK's office from Cairo to

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

. Tveit stayed in Beirut until 1983. Robert Fisk (8 December 2013). ''An obsessive's documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law''. The Independent. Retrieved fro

Amman 1990–1994

During his next period as a Middle East correspondent, 1990–1994, the NRK office was based in

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

Amman 2003–2007

Tveit was again Middle East correspondent for NRK from 2003 to 2007, when the office was based in Amman. In 2007 Sidsel Wold was assigned as NRK's new correspondent after Tveit had finished his period in Amman.

Gullruten award

Tveit was responsible for the documentary program ''Brennpunkt: Sporene etter Sharon'' ("Focus: Tracks after Sharon"), broadcast by NRK in 2002. This program received the

Gullruten Gullruten ("Golden Screen") is an annual award for the Norwegian TV industry, founded in 1998 by ''Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening''. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, NRK, TV 2, TV3 and TV ...

award for best TV documentary in 2002.

Books

Tveit wrote three books on energy politics in the early 1970s. From the mid-1980s the theme for his books has been the Middle East. He issued the book ''Alt for Israel. Oslo-Jerusalem 1948–1978'' ("All for Israel") in 1996, and ''Krig og diplomati. Oslo-Jerusalem 1978–1996'' ("War and Diplomacy") in 2005. He was awarded the

Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Priz ...

for non-fiction in 2005, for ''Krig og diplomati''.

Bibliography

Translations

References

External links

Odd Karsten Tveit on Amazon.com
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