Zaki Chehab

Zaki Chehab (b. 1956) is an Arab journalist. The Political Editor for the London-based broadsheet Al Hayat and a Senior Editor for the Arabic TV channel LBC, he has covered the Middle East for a variety of newsmedia including The Guardian, CNN, and the BBC. Chehab has covered numerous Middle Eastern conflicts, including the Lebanese Civil War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the First Intifada, and the wars in Yemen, the Gulf and Afghanistan.

Early life

Chehab was born in Tyre, South Lebanon in 1956. He grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp Burj El Shamali.

Career as a journalist

In 1985, Chehab moved to London to work for various London-based Arab newspapers and magazines. He eventually joined Al Hayat where he would later become Political Editor.

From his London base, Chehab travels to the world's conflict zones and attends world events including G8 and European Union summits. In the late 1980’s he covered the Iran–Iraq War, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank and Gaza, the 1994 civil war in Yemen, the Somali Civil War, the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, and the Algerian Civil War.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Chehab moved into television, analysing the events in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Arab-Israeli conflict for CNN , BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and others. He became an LBC (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation) Senior Editor based in London, while maintaining his position at Al Hayat. Chehab reported from 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 June 30 2003 on LBC TV, he became the first journalist in the world to broadcast interviews with members of the Iraqi resistance. [cite web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/13/iraq.comment|title=Article by Zaki Chehab in the Guardian|accessdate=2008-03-30] [cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2006/4/5/inside_the_resistance_leading_arab_journalist|title=Interview with Zaki Chehab in Democracy Now!|accessdate=2008-03-30] He is the author of the 2005 book ' and the 2007 book ' both published by I.B. Tauris in London and Nation Books in New York.

Chehab appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on May 21, 2007: [http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=87289&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2F&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true] .

References

External links

* [http://www.mvagency.com/zakichehab.html Official Speaking Website]
* [http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/zaki_chehab_interview_130618 Zaki Chebab interviewed on Special Broadcasting Service]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2007/5/22/zaki_chehab_on_inside_hamas_the Zaki Chehab interviewed on "Democracy Now!"]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5033882 Zaki Chehab interviewed on NPR]
* [http://www.brookings.edu/events/2007/0515terrorism.aspx A Saban Center Roundtable Discussion featuring Zaki Chehab]

Articles by Zaki Chehab

* [http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/zaki_chehab Nine articles from "New Statesman"]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/10/AR2005121000104.html "Civil War Can Be Averted"]