Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Jonathan Broder, senior editor for defense and foreign policy at Congressional Quarterly Weekly, will speak at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8 in Burney Center Ballroom B on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Titled “The Hurt Locker: U.S. Policy in the Middle East,” Broder’s talk is sponsored by the Department of Public and International Affairs as part of its annual “Poli Sci Days” for students. He will discuss the history of U.S. initiatives with the Middle East since the end of WWII and the challenges the Obama Administration faces in Iran, Afghanistan-Pakistan and the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Broder joined CQ in 2002 and reported from Iraq on the U.S. occupation. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, South Asia and the Far East for the Associated Press, NBC News and the Chicago Tribune. Based in Jerusalem and Beirut, he covered the 1973 Middle East war, the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the 1975 Lebanese civil war and its aftermath, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, the 1981 imposition of martial law in Poland, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the Palestinian intifada in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Returning to the U.S. in 1990, Broder worked in Washington as a reporter, editor and lecturer, covering foreign affairs, defense and national security for the San Francisco Examiner, National Public Radio, Salon and MSNBC.com.

He has won a number of awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists’ Peter Lisagor award for his coverage of Afghanistan.

Media contact:
Dana Fischetti, media relations manager, 910.962.7259 or fischettid@uncw.edu

Note to media: In addition to his public lecture, Broder will participate in an interview at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 with UNCW faculty member Remonda Kleinberg. Media are welcome to attend this event, which is in the Leutze Hall TV studio on the first floor of the building.