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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.

Gaza and the report that will not go away

It is less than a month since the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released its report on last summer’s war in Gaza...

 Egypt has a clear choice to make after a miserable week

The events of the past week here in Egypt are shocking, but in no way a surprise...

 A close call in Luxor, but this is not the first time

My first thought when I heard about this week’s jihadist attack on tourists at temple sites in Luxor was the infamous Luxor massacre in Nov. 1997...

 A bizarre twist in Libya’s militia drama

There have been signs of some Misrati units distancing themselves from the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated GNC regime over the past few months...

 Billions of dollars for Egypt, vindication for Sisi

The stunning success of Egypt’s three-day economic conference in Sharm al-Sheikh could not have come at a better time, for the weeks prior had been difficult for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.......

 As Egypt fires at ISIS, the U.S. still wants to talk it out

We are at a turning point, one prompted by the atrocities committed and filmed by ISIS...

 Moaz al-Kasasbeh and ISIS’ fatal misjudgment

Jordan is not alone in its horror and anger. Every faction in the Syrian civil war has condemned the killing...

 Shifting sands: Egypt’s Sisi goes all out on China visit

These days, everything seems to be going President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s way...