Charles Glass

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Glass speaks at a Christian Solidarity International event in 2015

Charles Glass (born November 18, 1951) is an

Second World War.[1]

He was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993, and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer.

Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East (1991) and a collection of essays, Money for Old Rope: Disorderly Compositions (1992). A sequel to Tribes with Flags, called The Tribes Triumphant, was published by HarperCollins in June 2006.

His next book, Americans in Paris (HarperCollins and Penguin Press), tells the story of the American citizens who chose to remain in Paris

when the Germans occupied the city in 1940. He also wrote "Deserter: The Untold Story of World War II" (Penguin Press and HarperCollins) [2]
His most recent book is They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France (Penguin Press, 2018).

One of Glass's best known stories was his 1985 interview on the tarmac of Beirut Airport of the crew of TWA Flight 847 after the flight was hijacked. He broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages and had hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut, which caused the Reagan administration to cancel a rescue attempt that would have failed and led to loss of life at the airport.[3] Glass made headlines in 1987, when he was taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi'a militants. He describes the kidnapping and escape in his book, Tribes with Flags.[4]

Personal life

Glass was born in

Los Angeles, California
, on January 23, 1951, and holds dual US/UK citizenship.

He lived in

Maronite Catholic from Ehden, and his father's family emigrated from Ireland to Maryland in 1700.[5]

Professional life

Glass began his career in 1973 with ABC News in Beirut, where he covered the

Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Granta, Harper's Magazine, and The London Magazine.[citation needed
]

He has made many documentary films for U.S. and British television, including Pity the Nation: Charles Glass' Lebanon; Iraq: Enemies of the State about military escalation and human rights abuses, broadcast six months before Iraq invaded Kuwait; Stains of War about war photographers; The Forgotten Faithful about the Palestinian Christian exodus from the West Bank; Our Man in Cairo; Islam for London Weekend Television; and Sadat: An Action Biography for ABC. Glass's film, Edward Said: The Last Interview, was shown at the ICA in London, the British Museum and other cinemas around the world.[6]

He is a lecturer on Middle East and international affairs in Britain and the United States.[7] He was the Books Editor of the Frontline Club Newsletter in London and is a publisher under his imprint, Charles Glass Books, in London.[citation needed]

Notable stories

Glass's one-hour documentary on Lebanon, Pity the Nation: Charles Glass's Lebanon, was broadcast in 20 countries, prompting the London Evening Standard critic to call it "one of the best and most heart-rending documentaries [he had] ever seen." Iraq: Enemies of the State, made for the BBC, was broadcast around the world six months before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. He also made Stains of War (1992), and The Forgotten Faithful (1994), which looked at the situation of the Palestinian Christians who have left the West Bank.[citation needed]

In 1988, he revealed that Saddam Hussein had developed

biological weapons. In 1991, he was the only American television correspondent to enter northern Iraq to cover the Kurdish rebellion from start to finish. In 1992, he took a hidden camera to East Timor, occupied by Indonesia, and filed a report that caused a U.S. Senate committee to vote for a suspension of military aid to Indonesia. From 1991 to 1993, he covered the war in Yugoslavia for ABC News and wrote about it in the Spectator.[8]

He returned to Iraq in 2003 to cover the American invasion for ABC News and wrote about the war in Harper's Magazine with photographs by a friend, Don McCullin.[9] He and McCullin covered Iraq again for Harper's in the autumn of 2016 to report on the war against the Islamic State and in 2017 recorded in words and photographs for Granta the destruction of the Roman ruins in Palmyra.

Glass won an Overseas Press Club award in 1976 for his radio reporting of the deaths of

Stephane Hessel's Time for Outrage!, D.D. Guttenplan's American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone, John Bird and John Borrell's The White Lake, and Jeremy Clarke's Low Life: The Spectator Columns.[citation needed
]

Works

External links

References

  1. ^ "Profile – Charles Glass". Charlesglass.net. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
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  3. ^ Glass, Charles; Jennings, Peter (1985-06-19). "TWA 847 Hijacking". Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  4. ^ "Tribes with Flags by Charles Glass". Grove Atlantic. Archived from the original on Sep 14, 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  5. ^ Miller, Jim (1990-04-27). "Tribes with Flags: A Dangerous Passage through the Middle East". EW.com. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  6. ^ Hamzah Taha (December 15, 2014). "Edward Said The Last Interview 2003". YouTube.[dead YouTube link]
  7. ^ "Ed Victor Speakers Bureau LLP". Edvictorspeakers.com. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  8. ^ "CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Charles Glass". CNN. Archived from the original on 2005-09-07. Retrieved 2005-09-07.
  9. ^ Cockburn, Andrew. "Charles Glass". Harpers.org. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
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