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Mohamad Bazzi
Lebanese-American journalist
Mohamad Bazzi (Arabic: محمد بزي) is a Lebanese-American journalist.[1] He is the former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday and a current faculty member of New York University. He is currently director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.[2] Bazzi was the 2007–2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.[3][4]
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 established bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut, and was Newsday's lead writer on the Iraq War and its aftermath.[4] He also covered the 2000 Palestinian uprising, the 2001 war in Afghanistan, and the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.[5]