Richard Engel
Richard Engel
Richard Engelis an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 September 1973
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.
You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad.
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.
The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.
I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.