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Abdallah Schleifer
Abdallah Schleifer

Abdallah Schleifer is a veteran American journalist covering the Middle East and distinguished visiting professor of political mass media at Future University in Egypt. He is also professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo where he founded as served as first director of the Kamal Adham Center for TV and Digital Journalism. He is chief editor of the annual publication The Muslim 500; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA) and at the Royal Aal al Bayt Academy for Islamic Thought (Jordan.) Schleifer has served as Al Arabiya Washington D.C. bureau chief; NBC News Cairo bureau chief; Middle East correspondent for Jeune Afrique; as special correspondent (stringer) , New York Times and managing editor of the Jerusalem Star/Palestine News in then Jordanian Arab Jerusalem.

The Third Palestinian Intifada, just around the corner

Intifadas smolder, a combination of small-scale humiliations that build up throughout the occupied West Bank, often combined with a general sense of hopelessness of any movement in any sort of peace...

 The media: Down and out, in and about Egypt

What is the big question in the press in Egypt? How deep, for how long and why is America a partner in conspiracy with the Muslim Brotherhood? Of course conspiracy theories, like complex paranoiac...

 The October War and another weird MB moment

There is something utterly bizarre about the Muslim Brotherhood calling for massive demonstrations today to denounce the Egyptian army. This is the 40th anniversary holiday that commemorates that...

 Global media miss the point over Sudan protests

Media coverage of the demonstrations in Sudan has been scant here in Cairo as well as in the West. I know all my Egyptian colleagues are only paying strict attention to fast moving events in Egypt,...

 One-state: solution or illusion for Palestine?

The idea of a one-state Solution (in all of the old Mandated Palestine) as a more viable and progressive answer to the two- state solution has been floating around the edges of Palestinian and...

 ‘Media diplomacy’ and the deal on Syria

When asked if there was anything Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could do or offer to stop an American attack, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s response sounded off the cuff: “Ah,...

 There are no options but bad options on Syria

It all seems so odd when viewed with a perspective beyond today or even yesterday’s headline: President Obama committed to some sort of limited military response because of the chemical warfare...

 Egypt’s media reacts to Erdogan’s ‘offensive’ offensive

It is easy to understand, but not agree with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s strongly worded criticism of the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and why he said what he...