Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara (Arabic: مروان بشارة Marwān Bišārah), a Palestinian Arab born in Nazareth, Israel, is Al Jazeera's senior political analyst and the editor and host of the network show Empire, a monthly program exploring global powers and their policies. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris. He is the author of two books about Israel and the Arab world and regularly writes about topics of international politics, especially foreign policy and the Middle East in leading newspapers.
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[edit] Life and career
Bishara was born in Nazareth into a Roman Catholic lower-middle-class family. His mother was a teacher and his father a health inspector and trade unionist with connections to the Communist party. He is the younger brother of Azmi Bishara. According to The Guardian, the family's history goes back hundreds of years to a village north of Nazareth.[1] Bishara is a citizen of Israel.
Bishara's articles appear in leading newspapers such as Al-Ahram Weekly, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Guardian, The New York Times and the Washington Post.
In Empire, his show on Al Jazeera, Bishara challenges concepts about global powers and global elites. In episodes such as "The US between Two Wars", "SuperClass", "BRIC: The New World Order" and "US & Iran: Best of Enemies?", he poses questions on geo-political issues of the day, fusing Al Jazeera field reporting with a studio debate with the participation of leading analysts and commentators.[2]
Bishara is the author of the book Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid published in 2001 by Zed Books several years before Jimmy Carter published a book under the almost identical title Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. The Invisible Arab, his book about the uprising in the Arab world came out in early 2012.
Bishara serves on the Board of Trustees of The Galilee Foundation, a UK based charity “established in 2007 to promote development and equality of the Palestinian indigenous community in Israel”.[3]
[edit] Quotes
On CNN regarding the Arab league's attempted regulation of media outlets such as Al Jazeera: "I think Arab - certain Arab - governments are really worried from the freedom of expression that is going on in the Arab world."[4]
[edit] Publications
[edit] Books
- Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid. London/New York: Zed Books. 2001, 2003. ISBN 978-1-84277-273-7. http://books.google.ch/books?id=TiW3wW5dqPIC&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
- The Invisible Arab. Nation Books/Perseus. 2012. ISBN 978-1-56858-708-0.
[edit] Articles
- "The Middle East's oldest dictatorship. Israel's rule over the Palestinians beyond the peace rhetoric". Al Jazeera. 21 April 2011. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/04/201142114189933416.html.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Rory McCarthy (24 July 2007). "Wanted, for crimes against the state". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/24/israel.
- ^ "About Empire. Marwan Bishara analyses global powers and their agendas". Al Jazeera. 17 July 2010. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2009/01/200912116355722575.html.
- ^ "The Galilee Foundation". http://www.galileefnd.org.uk/index.php.
- ^ "International Correspondents". CNN transcript. 29 February 2008. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/29/i_c.01.html.
[edit] External links
- Empire. Al Jazeera
- Transcript: Decline of the American empire. Al Jazeera, Empire 29 December 2011
- Marwan Bishara in the Huffington Post
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