MARK
BRUZONSKY 
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"I've
never
heard anyone who
has made this stuff as clear as you... It
was like
somebody
had just
opened the windows and
the light came pouring
in."
Anchorman Keith Morrison
commenting about Mark Bruzonsky
during
the historic White House
Arafat-Rabin-Clinton ceremony.
Mark Bruzonsky holds dual advanced
degrees
in international affairs and law from Princeton University and New
York University where he was a Root-Tilden
Scholar. He is a journalist
and international affairs consultant and the publisher of MiddleEast.org as well as the
now under development WashReport.
He writes and
speaks frequently about world affairs, U.S. foreign policy, the
Middle
East,
the underlying realities of policy-making in Washington, and
U.S.-Israeli relations. His now daily blog is headlined
"Insightful,
Irreverent, and Ferociously Truthful".
Bruzonsky was the producer and
host of the weekly TV program Mid-East
Realities from 1994 to 2004 when it was broadcast during
primetime evening hours
on all the cable TV systems in the
Washington, DC area. Many of these programs are now
available online.
In the past Bruzonsky was Associate
Editor of WORLDVIEW
MAGAZINE
in New York and Interview Editor of THE MIDDLE EAST MAGAZINE
in London. He also has been the Washington Representative for a
number of organizations and foundations as well as a consultant on
world affairs and the Middle
East for a number of prestigious organizations including the Woodrow
Wilson Center at the Smithsonian, Congressional
Quarterly (CQ), The National Geographic Society, and Okaz Organization
in Saudi Arabia. He has edited a number of
books including those published by the Wilson Center, CQ and National
Georgraphic. Early in his career Bruzonsky was
the first Washington Representative of the World Jewish Congress at a
time when that organization was led by international leaders who were
his mentors, Dr. Nahum Goldman and Philip Klutnick, and when the
organization itself was in the forefront of making contact with with
key Arabs and
Palestinian leaders which Bruzonsky was instrumental in accomplishing.
In these many and varied capacities Bruzonsky
has made more than 200 international trips to over 45 countries.
He has been the official guest of many organizatons and governments
including Egypt, Jordan, Israel,
Lebanon, the PLO,
Tunisia,
Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Pakistan and
Austria.
Very early in his career
Bruzonsky
made
world headlines when he personally met privately and alone for an hour
with
Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat to encourage him to visit Israel. The next day a picture of Bruzonsky meeting with
Sadat
appeared on
the front
page
of Egyptian newspapers. As a result of the meeting Sadat sent an unprecedented page-long telegram to Israeli
leaders which itself was front-page news in Israel. And then a few days after
their meeting in Cairo Sadat announced he would take the history-making
step to go to Israel and Bruzonsky was among the guests at the airport
that historic
evening to welcome him.
Again in 1982
Bruzonsky made world headlines
when he authored The Paris
Declaration published on the front page of LeMonde, France's leading newspaper.
This was a breakthrough event that greatly contributed to major
political developments soon to take place leading to the formal
acceptance of the PLO of the "Two-State Solution" in 1988.
During his graduate school years Bruzonsky
was
Chief Representative at the United Nations of the International Student
Movement
for the UN. For more than
a decade, from 1982 through 1994,
Bruzonsky wrote a
regular bi-weekly syndicated newspaper column called From Washington
published in leading newspapers in the Middle East including in Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, Jordan,
Pakistan, and
Israel/Palestine. From
1988 through 1995
Bruzonsky
was Chairperson of the Jewish
Committee
On the Middle East (JCOME), an
organization of Jewish intellectuals and professionals which was the
first American Jewish organization to call for a
fully sovereign and independent Palestinian State. The JCOME Statement
of Principles and other JCOME statements were
published in the Congressional Record
and in over 50 newspapers and magazines including The New York Review of Books, The Nation,
and LAWeekly.
Bruzonsky has lectured at many
universities
and World Affairs Councils, Rotary Clubs and
other public affairs organizations. He has given keynote and major speeches
at a number of leading
universities including Princeton, The University of Chicago,
Lawrence University, the University of Illinois, and Morehouse
College. Bruzonsky was also twice invited to
lecture
about U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East at the U.S. Army War
College. During the
historic White House signing ceremony
with Yitzhak
Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Bill Clinton, Bruzonsky provided the live
commentary for Canadian
Television 
.
Having
lived in Washington, DC, for many years Bruzonsky has a special grasp
of how
the political, legal, and social systems intersect with the vast array
of
think-tanks, media organizations, lobbyists, and foreign
representatives. His written articles and extensive
interviews
with key figures including former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, Israeli leader Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat,
Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Moussa Abu Marzook,
Noam Chomsky, and other important political and intellectual
personalities have appeared in more than 35
magazines and newspapers in eleven countries throughout the U.S.,
Europe, Israel, and the
Arab
world.
Magazine Cover
Column
Logo
With Current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Past
Major Speaking Invitations:
Princeton
University Forum - What's in the Service of the Nation
with Cornell West and Anne-Marie Slaughter
University of
Chicago - Keynote Address,
Midwest Model United
U.S. Army War
College - Carlylse
Barracks, PA.
Rotary Club - Wheeling, West Virginia
World Affairs
Council - Harrisburg, PA
Moorhouse
College - Atlanta, GA
Wheeling Jesuit
College - Wheeling, WV
National Presbyterian Assembly - Milwaukee, Wisc.
University
of Illinois - Champaigne,
IL.
Chicago Public
Access TV
St. Mary's College -
California
Lawrence University - Forum
on International Affairs with John Meirshemier, Rashid Khalidi,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Institute for Strategic Studies -
Islamabad, Pakistan
Al Ahram Center - Cairo, Egypt
Okaz Organization for Press and
Publications - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bethlehem University -
Bethlehem, West Bank Palestinian Territories
Bir Zeit University - Ramallah,
West Bank Palestinian Territories
American University - Cairo,
Egypt
Al Quds University - Jerusalem
Damascus University - Damascus,
Syria
Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv,
Israel
Oxford
University - Oxford, England
Haifa University - Haifa, Israel
American University - Beirut,
Lebanon
Publications
in which
feature
articles written by
Mark Bruzonsky
have been
published:
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USA PUBLICATIONS:
Atlanta Constitution Journal
Boston Globe
CSIS Reports
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Commonweal Magazine
Congressional Quarterly
Dissent Magazine
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Weekly
International Security (Harvard)
Middle East Journal
Moment Magazine
The Nation Magazine
National Geographic Society
The National Jewish Monthly
The New Renaissance
Newsday
Palestine Perspective
Politicks
Sacramento Bee
The Journal of Palestine Studies
The Journal of the Middle East Institute
The Washington Post
The Washington Star
Worldview Magazine
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars
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INTERNATIONAL
PUBLICATIONS:
Al-Biyader Al-Siyyaseh (Jerusalem)
Ad Dustour (Amman)
Al Ahram (Cairo)
Al-Siyassah (Kuwait)
Contemporary Review (London)
Events (London)
Haolam Hazeh (Tel Aviv)
International Affairs (London)
The Muslim (Islamabad)
International Problems (Tel Aviv)
The Jerusalem Star (Amman)
Israel & Palestine (Paris)
Journal of Palestine Studies (Beirut)
Le Monde (Paris)
Liberation (Paris)
Middle East International (London)
New Outlook (Tel Aviv)
Okaz (Jeddah)
Playboy Magazine (Slovenia)
Rose El Yusef (Cairo)
The Middle East Magazine (London)
The Saudi Gazette (Jeddah)
No War
(Gentosha Publishing, Japan)
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