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Sulayman Abdallah Sharif Schleifer | |
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Born | Schleifer, Marc 1935 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Alma mater | B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Political Science, 1956 M.A., American University of Beirut, Political Studies, 1980 [1] |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, Commentator |
Years active | 1970 - present |
Employer | the American University in Cairo |
Organization(s) | Global Experts Foreign Policy Research Institute, Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Al Arabiya |
S. Abdallah S. Schleifer (born Marc Schleifer; 1935 [2] ) is a prominent Middle East expert; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (United States) and at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Jordan). [3]
A former NBC Cairo Bureau chief (1974 - 1983), [3] Schleifer also served as the Al Arabiya News bureau chief in Washington D.C. (2006 - 2007) and currently writes periodic columns for their website. He is the chief editor of the annual publication The 500 Most Influential Muslims . [4]
His career in journalism in the Middle East began in 1965, when he served as the first managing editor of The Jerusalem Star, an English-language Jordanian newspaper that has since changed its name to The Palestine News. In 1967, Schleifer became an editorial assistant and then a special correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem and then in Amman, and, from 1968-1972, the Middle East correspondent of Jeune Afrique. [3]
He is professor emeritus and senior fellow at the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research, at the American University in Cairo - which he founded, and for which he served as its first director (1985 - 2005). [1] [3]
Schleifer was executive producer of Control Room (2004), a documentary film about Al Jazeera and its relations with the US Central Command.[ citation needed ]
During his career, he has interviewed many Middle Eastern leaders—heads of state as well as Ayman al-Zawahiri the leader of Al-Qaeda since 2011. [5]
Born Mark Schleifer to a secular Jewish family on Long Island, he received his BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 [1] where he was involved in Marxist movements. He is a convert to Islam with Sufi-orientation. [6] [7]
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