Zaki Chehab
Zaki Chehab (born 1956) is an
Arab journalist
. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ArabsToday.net, an Arabic-language news website.
Until October 2009, Chehab was London Bureau Chief of Al Hayat – LBC TV. He has covered the
Afghanistan
.
Early life
Chehab was born in
Palestinian refugee camp Burj el-Shemali. He moved to London in the 1980s.[citation needed
]
Career as a journalist
In 1985, Chehab moved to London to work for London-based Arab newspapers and magazines. He eventually joined Al Hayat where he would become Political Editor.[citation needed]
In the late 1980s he covered the
1994 civil war in Yemen, the Somali Civil War, the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, and the Algerian Civil War.[citation needed
]
Following the
war in Afghanistan. In 2003, he spent several months in Iraq during the war and its aftermath, reporting from Iraqi cities as they fell to American and British forces. On 30 June 2003 on LBC TV, he became the first journalist in the world to broadcast interviews with members of the Iraqi resistance.[1][2]
He is the author of the 2005 book Iraq Ablaze: Inside the Insurgency and the 2007 book Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement both published by
Nation Books in New York.[citation needed
]
Chehab appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on 21 May 2007.[3]
Bibliography
- Chehab (2005) Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi Insurgency and the Future of the Middle East – Nation Books
- Chehab (2007) Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement – Nation Books
References
- ^ "Article by Zaki Chehab in the Guardian". The Guardian. London. 13 October 2003. Retrieved 30 March 2008.
- ^ "Interview with Zaki Chehab in Democracy Now!". Retrieved 30 March 2008.
- ^ "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central".
Articles by Zaki Chehab
- Nine articles from New Statesman
- "Civil War Can Be Averted". Washington Post. 10 December 2005.
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