Shareen Blair Brysac
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Shareen Blair Brysac | |
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Notable awards | Five Emmys, a DuPont Citation, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Writers Guild Award, medals from New York and Chicago film festivals. |
Spouse | Karl E. Meyer |
Shareen Blair Brysac is an author of
Biography
Brysac was born in
In 1974 she began working for
From 1985 to 1987 she was first program manager for CUNY TV, the cable television station for the City University of New York and subsequently she was a member of the Media Faculty of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. In 1989, she founded and directed the Campus Programming Service designed to bring foreign programming to university television stations for which she received a Rockefeller Grant.
Brysac is a past member of the American Guild of Musical Artists, the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild, the Teacher's Union, and Women in Film. She is currently a member of the Authors Guild.
Writing
In 1999, she was the co-author with her husband,
Her biography, Resisting Hitler:
Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East appeared in 2008. Written together with her husband, it was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post.[7] Excerpts appeared in Harper's Magazine and the World Policy Journal. Her expanded chapter on Gertrude Bell was selected to appear in Ultimate Adventures with Britannia.[8]
Meyer and Brysac's book entitled Pax Ethnica: Where and Why Diversity Succeeds received support from the Gould,
The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures (2014) named one of the Washington Post's Books of the Year.
Brysac has also been a contributing editor to Archaeology magazine and a frequent contributor to Military History Quarterly. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The World Policy Journal and The Nation.
During the fall term
Television and lecture appearances
Brysac's television appearances include Dance in America (PBS), WISC, WNYC, CNN and three hours on C-SPAN’s Book Talk.[10][11][12][13]
She has lectured at universities and local libraries including the
Filmography
- A Conversation with Eric Sevareid, CBS, 1977.
- 1968, CBS, 1978.
- American Dream, American Nightmare, CBS, 1979.
- Pablo Picasso: Once in a Lifetime with the Museum of Modern Art, CBS, 1981.
- The Cowboy, the Craftsman and the Ballerina, CBS, 1981.
- Juilliard: a Life in Music, CBS, 1982
Bibliography
- 1999: Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint
- 2000: Brysac, Shareen Blair. Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra. New York: Oxford University Press
- 2007: Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac. Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East. New York: Norton
- 2012: Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac. Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds. New York: PublicAffairs
- 2014: Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac. The China Collectors: America's Century Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
References
- ^ CBS News Special: American Dream, American Nightmare...the Seventies (Part 1), CBS, 1979.
- ^ "Juilliard and Beyond: A life in Music". Archived from the original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2011-08-21., Peabody awards, 1982.
- ^ Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac, Counterpoint, 1999.
- ^ Notable Books, The New York Times, Dec 3 2000.
- ^ Nominees Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Lionel Gelber Prize, 2000.
- ^ Finalists Selected in Nine Categories for The Times Book Prizes, Los Angeles Times, Mar 9, 2001.
- ^ Best books of 2008, The Washington Post, Dec 7 2008.
- Wm Roger Louis(editor), Ultimate Adventures with Britannia, "Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq", pp. 283–298, Tauris, 2009.
- ^ India: The Kerala Model, blog for the Pulitzer Center, Dec 8, 2009.
- ^ Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, C-SPAN, Oc 29, 2008.
- ^ Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, Forum Network, Oct 28, 2008.
- ^ Resisting Hitler, National Archives and Records Administration, C-SPAN, Jan 9, 2001.
- ^ Tournament of Shadows, Library of Congress Center for the Book, C-SPAN, Nov 2, 1999.
External links
- Author's website
- Shareen Blair Brysac at IMDb
- Biographies, The Irish Times, Feb 10, 2000.