In October 1990 during the buildup to the Gulf War, I asked Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, then a professor of literature at Columbia University, if he would direct me to the best Palestinian spokesperson he could think of to articulate the Palestinian struggle. Said referred me to journalist and PLO founding member Shafik Hout.
I took Said’s advice and arranged to interview Shafik Hout for New York Newsday at the UN Plaza Hotel where he was staying. We met over a bottle of Johnny Walker Black (which he provided). Some of Hout’s responses are relevant to the dynamics of the current Gaza War. Our interview follows.
I'm the author of five books: The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry; The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza; The Paradigm Shifters: Overthrowing 'the Hegemony of the Culture of Darwin'; Royal Society: The Public Evolution Summit; and the most recent---Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology.
My reports have appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Newsday, Archaeology, Astrobiology, Connoisseur, Omni, Huffington Post, Progressive Review ("How Bush Got Bounced From Carlyle Board"), CounterPunch, Scoop Media and other publications, as well as on PBS, CBC and MBC.
More than a dozen of my stories related to the Rome antiquities conspiracy trial were featured in Harvard Law School's Art Law Syllabus 2008.
I've covered the wars: Colombian Drug War, Gulf War, Sudan, and Kashmir (from both the Indian and Pakistani sides of the conflict).
And I’ve been a guest on Charlie Rose, McLaughlin and various Fox Television News programs talking about those crises and others.
For some years along the way, I was a runway fashion model for legends Geoffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Giorgio Sant' Angelo and so many more.
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