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
Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.
Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.
Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself swimming in the Tigris to cool off after reporting in the city the caliphs called Madinit al-Salam, the City of Peace. A year later, I realized I wouldn't be taking any midnight dips - Madinat al-Salam no more.
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.
I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.
For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.