Alex Safian

Alex Safian

Alex Safian is associate director of CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).

Safian is a graduate of Columbia University with a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Safian came to the Boston area to attend Harvard graduate school, and started as a CAMERA volunteer in the early 1990s after he got involved researching an anti-Israeli op-ed piece in a community newspaper. He calls himself "a news junkie" and says the trauma of following the news from Israel as a schoolboy during the 1967 war — when that nation's fate hung in the balance — was a "formative experience." Of his motivation in general, he says simply, "It motivates me when I see people misrepresenting things." [http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/manager/features/display_message.asp?mid=593 "Blaming the Messenger", Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Globe, Feb. 9, 2003] ]

CAMERA Director Andrea Levin and Safian operate out of CAMERA headquarters in a Boston neighborhood, overseeing a warren of busy offices brimming with tapes, transcripts, and clippings and adorned with maps, posters, and such books as Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder and The Media's War Against Israel. Its corps of researchers scrutinizes every paragraph and camera angle of Mideast reportage, counting sources, checking facts, and monitoring tone.

Safian is widely quoted on the problem of media bias. He told Fox and Friends that in producing the controversial series “God’s Warriors,” “Christiane Amanpour and her production team have an agenda" which is "anti-Israel," "anti-Christian," and "whitewashes Islam." [ [http://newsbusters.org/people/alex-safian "Fox and Friends Guest Speaks Out Against CNN's 'God's Warriors" '] ] His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Middle East Quarterly, the Jerusalem Post, and many other newspapers and journals.

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America — Formation 1982 by Winifred Meiselman Type Non profit NGO …   Wikipedia

  • Israel Shahak — ( he. ישראל שחק, April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001) was a Polish born Israeli Professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli… …   Wikipedia

  • Международное право и операция «Литой свинец» — Проверить нейтральность. На странице обсуждения должны быть подробности. Во время операции «Литой свинец» обе стороны конфликта неоднократно обвинялись в совершении военных преступлен …   Википедия

  • Har Homa — The newest of the city s developments, its construction in the 1990s within the extended municipal boundaries that are disputed by the United Nations [http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/3822b5e39951876a85256b6e0058a478/6de6da8a650b4c3b852560df006638… …   Wikipedia

  • Sidney Coleman — Infobox Scientist name = Sidney Coleman birth date = birth date|1937|3|7 birth place = Chicago death date = death date|2007|11|18 residence = United States nationality = American field = Physicist work institution = Harvard University alma mater …   Wikipedia

  • List of Columbia University people — This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.Nobel laureatesAs of October 2006, 76 Nobel laureates are associated with Columbia University. 39 Nobel laureates are the alumni of Columbia University.… …   Wikipedia

  • Talcott Williams Seelye — Talcott W. Seelye (March 6, 1922 – June 8, 2006) was a former United States Ambassador, author, and commentator.Seelye was born in Beirut the son of a professor at the American University of Beirut, and great grandson of Julius H. Seelye (famed… …   Wikipedia

  • Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions — Infobox Non profit Non profit name = Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Non profit founded date = 1997 founder = Jeff Halper Amos Gvirtz Rabbi Arik Ascherman Meir Margalit Yoav Hess Yael Cohen location = Main Office Jerusalem, Israel U.S …   Wikipedia

  • Andrea Levin — is director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a pro Israel American nonprofit, tax exempt organization based in Boston. The New York Times has described CAMERA as a muscular pro Zionist media monitor. [… …   Wikipedia

  • Всепалестинское правительство — «»Всепалестинское правительство (араб. حكومة عموم فلسطين‎‎) было создано в Газе 22 сентября 1948 года Лигой арабских государств во время арабо израильской войны. Параллельно собравшиеся в Газе 75[1][2] представителей арабских населённых пунктов… …   Википедия

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”