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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.

Dear Sisi, it is time to talk illiteracy

There are an estimated minimum of 17 million adult illiterates in Egypt...

 Sisi back from Jordan and off to court China

Reading the official communiques coming from both Jordan and Egypt following last Thursday’s official visit of Egyptian President Al-Sisi to Amman and his meeting with King Abdallah II provoked......

 Muslim-Christian cooperation vital in tackling ISIS

That Christian minorities in Egypt and the Levant have suffered tremendously is now undeniable...

 Beheadings and suicide bombings: The new rage in Libya

This past week, car bombs exploded outside the UAE and Egyptian embassies in Tripoli ...

 The Egyptian press in peril?

Not really. But that is the headline - without the question mark, of course - for an emailed press release from the Committee to Protect Journalists that made its way, as do all CPJ press releases,......

 Sinai: Terrorist presence becomes full-fledged insurgency

A week later, Egypt is still reeling from the coordinated attack in the Sinai ...

 Social media, commentary endanger journalism in America

The threat that social media and the internet pose to journalism is universal...

 Billions for Gaza and vindicating Egypt’s Sisi

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reasserted a great regional role for Egypt...