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Bartle Breese Bull or Bartle Bull III (born 1970) is an American businessman and writer. Bull is a former editor of the Middle East Monitor and foreign editor of Prospect , a leading London-based political and cultural magazine.

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Early life

Bull is the son of Bartle Bull and Belinda Lawrence Breese. [1] His father is an author, former newspaper and magazine publisher, and lawyer who graduated from Harvard College, where he was an editor of The Harvard Crimson , Harvard University Law School and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. [1] [2] His father was the New York City coordinator of N.Y. Citizens for Kennedy in 1968, organized New York State's Democrats for McCain in 2008, Democrats for Gibson in New York's 19th Congressional District in 2016, and served on the boards of the Fulbright Scholarship Program [3] and the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. [4] [5]

Bull is the grandson of Rosemary (née Baur) [6] and Bartle Bull (1902–1950), a Canadian-born British barrister and Conservative Party politician. [7] His mother was the daughter of William Lawrence Breese Jr. (1909–2000), founder and chairman of the Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs and International Understanding, [8] great-granddaughter of U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish II and the great-great granddaughter of Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), the United States Secretary of State from 1869 to 1877. [1]

In 1776 Bull's quadruple-great-grandfather, Nicholas Fish, became, serving at the age of eighteen in the 2nd New York Regiment, the youngest Major in the Continental Army. Since then, Bull's ancestors and relatives have served New York State in many offices, from Senator to Congressman to Governor. Bull's great-grandmother, Bertha Baur, served as National Republican Committeewoman for Illinois from 1928-1952, was one of the first women in the United States to run for Congress (twice in the 1930s), and hosted the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

Career

Bull has written from the Middle East for The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , the Financial Times , The Daily Telegraph , Foreign Policy , Die Welt and other publications. His work, widely syndicated in Europe and the United States, has been featured in Corriere della Sera, International Herald Tribune , Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. He has appeared many times on radio and television and is most frequently a guest on Fox Business News; he has also appeared on the BBC, NPR, Fox News and Al Jazeera. [ citation needed ]

Bull did many journalistic tours of duty in Iraq following the start of the insurgency in the spring of 2004 and is the only western journalist to have been embedded with the Mahdi Army in Iraq. According to The Wall Street Journal, Bull's next book, Babylon, is an account of the long relationship between Iraq, Iran and the West published in 2008 by Grove and Atlantic. [ citation needed ]

In the October 2007 issue of Prospect Magazine, Bull argued that the Coalition's mission in Iraq has been accomplished. With most Sunni factions now seeking a deal he claims the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively. The country remains one, it has embraced the ballot box and avoided all-out civil war. He says that what violence remains is largely local and criminal. American troops will leave Iraq, Bull wrote, only "when the Iraqis, through their elected leadership, tell them to". [9] [10]

Bull is a founder of Northern Gulf Partners, an Iraq-focused investment firm. [11] At Northern Gulf, Bull, "an emerging markets fund manager," helped to establish and operate Iraq Investment Partners I, the world's first Iraq-only public securities investment fund. [12]

Bull's Showtime documentary feature film "Cradle of Champions" premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in 2017 and won the critics' and audience awards at the Manchester (UK) International Film Festival. The film has been praised as "a new standard for character-driven narrative documentary... the envy of any feature filmmaker." [13] Reviews have been positive: "the nail-biting excitement of a fictional boxing movie like RAGING BULL… both a stirring sports doc and a rich nonfiction drama, populated by characters who could have stepped out of a Damon Runyon story" [14] … "real life with cinematic beauty" [15] … "sensational" [16] … "an astounding success" [17] … "a great film… a film that I want to see again and again.... Bartle Bull hasn't just made a documentary, he has made a grand narrative that mirrors the mythic tales of antiquity" [18] … "compelling" [19] … "very, very powerful" [20] … "robustly made… about New York and the way it sees itself: tough, big-hearted, assimilated and patriotic." [21]

Bull is a former Director of the Longview Foundation [22] and sits on the Visiting Committee of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University (1993) and an M.B.A. from Columbia University (2000). [23]

Bull and his wife Claudia live in Dutchess County, NY with two young children.

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  1. 1 2 3 "Belinda L. Breese Wed To Battle Bull, a Lawyer". The New York Times . May 26, 1968. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Bull, Bartle (October 29, 2015). "Final Clubs and the Freedom of Association | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson". Harvard Crimson . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Fulbright | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs".
  4. ↑ "The Initiative To Educate Afghan Women".
  5. ↑ Bull, Bartle (June 7, 1968). "Robert F. Kennedy". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Rosemary Baur and Bartle Bull to Wed Nov. 7". Chicago Daily Tribune . November 6, 1931. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Obituary: Mr Bartle Bull". The Times . October 18, 1950. p. 6.
  8. ↑ "William Lawrence Breese, 91, Dies". The Washington Post . March 23, 2000. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Profile, greenmanreview.com; accessed November 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ Profile, jhcb.com; accessed November 12, 2014.
  11. ↑ Bull, Bartle Breese (August 14, 2012). "Opinion | What Syria's Rebels Need". The New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  12. ↑ "NGP - Partners". www.northerngp.com. Northern Gulf Partners. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  13. ↑ Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent
  14. ↑ Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
  15. ↑ Cory Walsh, The Missoulian
  16. ↑ Laura Hiros, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  17. ↑ Chris Luciantonio, Film Pulse
  18. ↑ Steve Kopian, Unseen Films
  19. ↑ Wendy Ide, The Observer
  20. ↑ Mark Kermode, BBC Radio 5
  21. ↑ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
  22. ↑ "Youth Education in World Affairs | Longview Foundation". longviewfdn.org.
  23. ↑ Bartle Bull personal website, bartlebull.com; accessed November 14, 2014.
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