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Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara (Arabic: مروان بشارة) is an Israeli Arab author, columnist and senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English. From 2009 to 2016, Bishara was the editor and host of their flagship programs Empire, which examined global powers and their agendas in a fusion of documentary and debate with politicians, generals, philosophers, academics, novelists, movie directors, and activists from the world over. He has been described as "one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals" and writes extensively on global politics and is widely considered a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs.
Although he was born in Israel, Bishara has spent most of his adult life outside the country, including periods of studying, living and working in the United States and France as well as traveling extensively in the course of his career interests, travel which he has described as providing "perspectives like no other".
Marwan Bishara was born in Nazareth, Israel, into a Christian Arab family. His mother was a school teacher and his father a health inspector and trade unionist; his siblings include Israeli former politician Azmi and Rawia Bishara (a chef, cookbook writer and restaurateur).
Bishara earned a PhD in political sociology and strategic studies in 2005 from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 2005. His thesis, undertaken under the supervision of sociologist Alain Joxe, is entitled "Israeli dependency relations with the United States after 1967: transnational relationship of patronage and the globalization of the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock". During this period, Bishara was a lecturer in International Relations at the American University of Paris and worked as a senior researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for peace and Strategic Studies (French) Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la paix et d'études stratégiques (CIRPES) He also taught at Parsons School of Design in Paris prior to that. Before joining Al Jazeera in 2007, he was senior political analyst for Abu Dhabi TV. In 2017–18 he joined St Anthony's College, Oxford University, as an academic visitor, working on US Patron-Client relations in the Middle East.
Bishara's journalistic output spans more than 30 years, appearing in The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, The Guardian, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique The Nation, Huffington Post, among other outlets, together with a collection of opinion pieces for Al Jazeera. He has written in English, Arabic, Hebrew and French and has had his work translated into other languages. YouTube carries a large number of his analyses for Al Jazeera on contemporary affairs in more than one language.
Considered an authority on strategic affairs, notably US foreign policy, Cold War, and Middle Eastern relations, Bishara has been a consistent vocal critic of official policies, especially American and Soviet imperialism, European colonialism, and Middle East dictatorships.
Bishara identifies as a liberal democrat in as far as he supports liberal democracy. He is also a pacifist and has written extensively on the futility and savagery of war, its disingenuous justifications and inherent misogyny preferring to press for diplomacy and conflict resolution.
As a Palestinian intellectual, Bishara has been a critic of Israeli policies and violence while denouncing anti-semitism and all other forms of racism. While he has criticised some of Hamas' methods as "unsavoury", he rejects comparisons of Hamas with Al-Qaeda or ISIS. He points out that unlike those groups, Hamas has never carried out an attack outside of historical Palestine and it legitimately won a majority in the most recent Palestinian legislative election.
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Marwan Bishara
Marwan Bishara (Arabic: مروان بشارة) is an Israeli Arab author, columnist and senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English. From 2009 to 2016, Bishara was the editor and host of their flagship programs Empire, which examined global powers and their agendas in a fusion of documentary and debate with politicians, generals, philosophers, academics, novelists, movie directors, and activists from the world over. He has been described as "one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals" and writes extensively on global politics and is widely considered a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs.
Although he was born in Israel, Bishara has spent most of his adult life outside the country, including periods of studying, living and working in the United States and France as well as traveling extensively in the course of his career interests, travel which he has described as providing "perspectives like no other".
Marwan Bishara was born in Nazareth, Israel, into a Christian Arab family. His mother was a school teacher and his father a health inspector and trade unionist; his siblings include Israeli former politician Azmi and Rawia Bishara (a chef, cookbook writer and restaurateur).
Bishara earned a PhD in political sociology and strategic studies in 2005 from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 2005. His thesis, undertaken under the supervision of sociologist Alain Joxe, is entitled "Israeli dependency relations with the United States after 1967: transnational relationship of patronage and the globalization of the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock". During this period, Bishara was a lecturer in International Relations at the American University of Paris and worked as a senior researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for peace and Strategic Studies (French) Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la paix et d'études stratégiques (CIRPES) He also taught at Parsons School of Design in Paris prior to that. Before joining Al Jazeera in 2007, he was senior political analyst for Abu Dhabi TV. In 2017–18 he joined St Anthony's College, Oxford University, as an academic visitor, working on US Patron-Client relations in the Middle East.
Bishara's journalistic output spans more than 30 years, appearing in The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, The Guardian, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique The Nation, Huffington Post, among other outlets, together with a collection of opinion pieces for Al Jazeera. He has written in English, Arabic, Hebrew and French and has had his work translated into other languages. YouTube carries a large number of his analyses for Al Jazeera on contemporary affairs in more than one language.
Considered an authority on strategic affairs, notably US foreign policy, Cold War, and Middle Eastern relations, Bishara has been a consistent vocal critic of official policies, especially American and Soviet imperialism, European colonialism, and Middle East dictatorships.
Bishara identifies as a liberal democrat in as far as he supports liberal democracy. He is also a pacifist and has written extensively on the futility and savagery of war, its disingenuous justifications and inherent misogyny preferring to press for diplomacy and conflict resolution.
As a Palestinian intellectual, Bishara has been a critic of Israeli policies and violence while denouncing anti-semitism and all other forms of racism. While he has criticised some of Hamas' methods as "unsavoury", he rejects comparisons of Hamas with Al-Qaeda or ISIS. He points out that unlike those groups, Hamas has never carried out an attack outside of historical Palestine and it legitimately won a majority in the most recent Palestinian legislative election.
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