Patrick Martin (journalist)

For other people named Patrick Martin, see Patrick Martin (disambiguation).

Patrick Martin (born 10 Mar 1951, Toronto) is a Canadian journalist who is the Jerusalem-based Middle East bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper.

Martin's first visit to the Middle East occurred in 1971, when he motorcycled across the entirety of North Africa. For much of the 1980s, he was the Middle East correspondent for the Globe and Mail. He covered the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the return of Yasser Arafat to the Gaza Strip.

Until 2008, he was Comment editor for The Globe and Mail. During this time, Martin appeared regularly on the foreign-affairs panel on TVOntario's Studio 2 and its successor program The Agenda and made frequent reporting trips to Iraq and other conflict zones. In 2008, he returned to the Middle East

Fellow columnist Margaret Wente revealed in a June 20, 2007 column that Martin had been frequently subjected to interrogations while travelling in the U.S. after 9/11, because the name "Patrick Martin" appeared on the American No Fly List. [1]