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Charles Glass

October 17, 2023

Charles Glass (born November 18, 1951) is an American-British author, journalist, broadcaster and publisher specializing in the Middle East and the Second World War.[1]

Glass speaks at a Christian Solidarity International event in 2015

He was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993, and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, and on television networks, all over the world.[citation needed]

Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East (1991) and a collection of essays, Money for Old Rope: Disorderly Compositions (1992). A sequel to Tribes with Flags, called The Tribes Triumphant, was published by HarperCollins in June 2006. His book on the beginning of the American war in Iraq, The Northern Front, was published in October 2006 by Saqi.[citation needed]

His next book, Americans in Paris (HarperCollins and Penguin Press), tells the story of the American citizens who chose to remain in Paris when the Germans occupied the city in 1940. He also wrote "Deserter: The Untold Story of World War II" (Penguin Press and HarperCollins) [2] His most recent book is They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France (Penguin Press, 2018).

One of Glass's best known stories was his 1985 interview on the tarmac of Beirut Airport of the crew of TWA Flight 847 after the flight was hijacked. He broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages and had hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut, which caused the Reagan administration to cancel a rescue attempt that would have failed and led to loss of life at the airport.[3] Glass made headlines in 1987, when he was taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi'a militants. He describes the kidnapping and escape in his book, Tribes with Flags.[4]

Personal life Edit

Glass was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 23, 1951, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. Raised as a Catholic, he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Southern California (USC), then undertook graduate studies at the American University of Beirut.[citation needed]

He lived in Beirut, Lebanon, for six years. He was married to Fiona Ross for seventeen years. He has three sons, one daughter and two stepdaughters and lives variously in France, Italy, Britain and Lebanon. His maternal grandmother was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic from Ehden, and his father's family emigrated from Ireland to Maryland in 1700.[5]

Professional life Edit

Glass began his career in 1973 with ABC News in Beirut, where he covered the Arab-Israeli war in Syria and Egypt with Peter Jennings. He became the network's chief Middle East correspondent, a position he held for ten years, before deciding to freelance.[citation needed] Since then, he has also worked with CNN and the BBC. In print, he has written for The New York Review of Books, The Independent, The Spectator, The Christian Science Monitor, Time, The Guardian, Chicago Daily News, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Granta, Harper's Magazine, and The London Magazine.[citation needed]

He has made many documentary films for U.S. and British television, including Pity the Nation: Charles Glass' Lebanon; Iraq: Enemies of the State about military escalation and human rights abuses, broadcast six months before Iraq invaded Kuwait; Stains of War about war photographers; The Forgotten Faithful about the Palestinian Christian exodus from the West Bank; Our Man in Cairo; Islam for London Weekend Television; and Sadat: An Action Biography for ABC. Glass's film, Edward Said: The Last Interview, was shown at the ICA in London, the British Museum and other cinemas around the world.[6]

He is a lecturer on Middle East and international affairs in Britain and the United States.[7] He was the Books Editor of the Frontline Club Newsletter in London and is a publisher under his imprint, Charles Glass Books, in London.[citation needed]

Notable stories Edit

Glass's one-hour documentary on Lebanon, Pity the Nation: Charles Glass's Lebanon, was broadcast in 20 countries, prompting the London Evening Standard critic to call it "one of the best and most heart-rending documentaries [he had] ever seen." Iraq: Enemies of the State, made for the BBC, was broadcast around the world six months before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. He also made Stains of War (1992), and The Forgotten Faithful (1994), which looked at the situation of the Palestinian Christians who have left the West Bank.[citation needed]

In 1988, he revealed that Saddam Hussein had developed biological weapons. In 1991, he was the only American television correspondent to enter northern Iraq to cover the Kurdish rebellion from start to finish. In 1992, he took a hidden camera to East Timor, occupied by Indonesia, and filed a report that caused a U.S. Senate committee to vote for a suspension of military aid to Indonesia. From 1991 to 1993, he covered the war in Yugoslavia for ABC News and wrote about it in the Spectator.[8]

He returned to Iraq in 2003 to cover the American invasion for ABC News and wrote about the war in Harper's Magazine with photographs by a friend, Don McCullin.[9] He and McCullin covered Iraq again for Harper's in the autumn of 2016 to report on the war against the Islamic State and in 2017 recorded in words and photographs for Granta the destruction of the Roman ruins in Palmyra.

Glass won an Overseas Press Club award in 1976 for his radio reporting of the deaths of Palestinians at the Beirut refugee camp at Tel el Zaatar; and he has shared the British Commonwealth and Peabody Awards for documentary films. In 2011, he initiated his publishing imprint, Charles Glass Books, under the aegis of Quartet Books in London. His first publications were Stephane Hessel's Time for Outrage!, D.D. Guttenplan's American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone, John Bird and John Borrell's The White Lake, and Jeremy Clarke's Low Life: The Spectator Columns.[citation needed]

Works Edit

  • Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East (hardcover and paperback), Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991; ISBN 0-87113-457-8 (Published in the United Kingdom by Secker and Warburg, as well as Picador.)
  • Money for Old Rope: Disorderly Compositions (paperback), Picador, 1992; ISBN 0-330-32209-5
  • The Tribes Triumphant (hardcover), HarperCollins, 2006
  • The Northern Front: An Iraq War Diary (paperback), Saqi Books, 2006
  • Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under the Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944 (hardcover), HarperCollins, 2009; ISBN 978-0-00-722853-9
  • The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II, (hardcover) The Penguin Press, 2013 ISBN 978-1-59420-428-9
  • Syria Burning: ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring, OR Books, 2015
  • Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe, VersoBooks, 2016 ISBN 9781784785161
  • They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France (hardcover), Penguin Press, 2018 ISBN 9781594206177

External links Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ "Profile – Charles Glass". Charlesglass.net. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  2. ^ Glass, Charles (May 27, 2014). The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143125488.
  3. ^ "TWA 847 Hijacking". Tvnews.vanderbilt.edu. 1985-06-19. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  4. ^ "Tribes with Flags by Charles Glass". Groveatlantic.com. 1987-06-18. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  5. ^ Miller, Jim (1990-04-27). "Tribes with Flags: A Dangerous Passage through the Middle East". EW.com. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  6. ^ Hamzah Taha (December 15, 2014). "Edward Said The Last Interview 2003". YouTube.[dead YouTube link]
  7. ^ "Ed Victor Speakers Bureau LLP". Edvictorspeakers.com. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  8. ^ . CNN. Archived from the original on 2005-09-07. Retrieved 2005-09-07.
  9. ^ Cockburn, Andrew. "Charles Glass". Harpers.org. Retrieved 2016-09-04.

October 17, 2023
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Charles Glass born November 18 1951 is an American British author journalist broadcaster and publisher specializing in the Middle East and the Second World War 1 Glass speaks at a Christian Solidarity International event in 2015He was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993 and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines and on television networks all over the world citation needed Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East 1991 and a collection of essays Money for Old Rope Disorderly Compositions 1992 A sequel to Tribes with Flags called The Tribes Triumphant was published by HarperCollins in June 2006 His book on the beginning of the American war in Iraq The Northern Front was published in October 2006 by Saqi citation needed His next book Americans in Paris HarperCollins and Penguin Press tells the story of the American citizens who chose to remain in Paris when the Germans occupied the city in 1940 He also wrote Deserter The Untold Story of World War II Penguin Press and HarperCollins 2 His most recent book is They Fought Alone The True Story of the Starr Brothers British Secret Agents in Nazi Occupied France Penguin Press 2018 One of Glass s best known stories was his 1985 interview on the tarmac of Beirut Airport of the crew of TWA Flight 847 after the flight was hijacked He broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages and had hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut which caused the Reagan administration to cancel a rescue attempt that would have failed and led to loss of life at the airport 3 Glass made headlines in 1987 when he was taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi a militants He describes the kidnapping and escape in his book Tribes with Flags 4 Contents 1 Personal life 2 Professional life 3 Notable stories 4 Works 5 External links 6 ReferencesPersonal life EditGlass was born in Los Angeles California on January 23 1951 and holds dual US UK citizenship Raised as a Catholic he earned a bachelor s degree in philosophy from the University of Southern California USC then undertook graduate studies at the American University of Beirut citation needed He lived in Beirut Lebanon for six years He was married to Fiona Ross for seventeen years He has three sons one daughter and two stepdaughters and lives variously in France Italy Britain and Lebanon His maternal grandmother was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic from Ehden and his father s family emigrated from Ireland to Maryland in 1700 5 Professional life EditThis section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Charles Glass news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Glass began his career in 1973 with ABC News in Beirut where he covered the Arab Israeli war in Syria and Egypt with Peter Jennings He became the network s chief Middle East correspondent a position he held for ten years before deciding to freelance citation needed Since then he has also worked with CNN and the BBC In print he has written for The New York Review of Books The Independent The Spectator The Christian Science Monitor Time The Guardian Chicago Daily News The Daily Telegraph The Sunday Telegraph New Statesman Times Literary Supplement London Review of Books Granta Harper s Magazine and The London Magazine citation needed He has made many documentary films for U S and British television including Pity the Nation Charles Glass Lebanon Iraq Enemies of the State about military escalation and human rights abuses broadcast six months before Iraq invaded Kuwait Stains of War about war photographers The Forgotten Faithful about the Palestinian Christian exodus from the West Bank Our Man in Cairo Islam for London Weekend Television and Sadat An Action Biography for ABC Glass s film Edward Said The Last Interview was shown at the ICA in London the British Museum and other cinemas around the world 6 He is a lecturer on Middle East and international affairs in Britain and the United States 7 He was the Books Editor of the Frontline Club Newsletter in London and is a publisher under his imprint Charles Glass Books in London citation needed Notable stories EditGlass s one hour documentary on Lebanon Pity the Nation Charles Glass s Lebanon was broadcast in 20 countries prompting the London Evening Standard critic to call it one of the best and most heart rending documentaries he had ever seen Iraq Enemies of the State made for the BBC was broadcast around the world six months before Saddam Hussein s invasion of Kuwait He also made Stains of War 1992 and The Forgotten Faithful 1994 which looked at the situation of the Palestinian Christians who have left the West Bank citation needed In 1988 he revealed that Saddam Hussein had developed biological weapons In 1991 he was the only American television correspondent to enter northern Iraq to cover the Kurdish rebellion from start to finish In 1992 he took a hidden camera to East Timor occupied by Indonesia and filed a report that caused a U S Senate committee to vote for a suspension of military aid to Indonesia From 1991 to 1993 he covered the war in Yugoslavia for ABC News and wrote about it in the Spectator 8 He returned to Iraq in 2003 to cover the American invasion for ABC News and wrote about the war in Harper s Magazine with photographs by a friend Don McCullin 9 He and McCullin covered Iraq again for Harper s in the autumn of 2016 to report on the war against the Islamic State and in 2017 recorded in words and photographs for Granta the destruction of the Roman ruins in Palmyra Glass won an Overseas Press Club award in 1976 for his radio reporting of the deaths of Palestinians at the Beirut refugee camp at Tel el Zaatar and he has shared the British Commonwealth and Peabody Awards for documentary films In 2011 he initiated his publishing imprint Charles Glass Books under the aegis of Quartet Books in London His first publications were Stephane Hessel s Time for Outrage D D Guttenplan s American Radical The Life and Times of I F Stone John Bird and John Borrell s The White Lake and Jeremy Clarke s Low Life The Spectator Columns citation needed Works EditTribes With Flags A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East hardcover and paperback Atlantic Monthly Press 1991 ISBN 0 87113 457 8 Published in the United Kingdom by Secker and Warburg as well as Picador Money for Old Rope Disorderly Compositions paperback Picador 1992 ISBN 0 330 32209 5 The Tribes Triumphant hardcover HarperCollins 2006 The Northern Front An Iraq War Diary paperback Saqi Books 2006 Americans in Paris Life and Death Under the Nazi Occupation 1940 1944 hardcover HarperCollins 2009 ISBN 978 0 00 722853 9 The Deserters A Hidden History of World War II hardcover The Penguin Press 2013 ISBN 978 1 59420 428 9 Syria Burning ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring OR Books 2015 Syria Burning A Short History of a Catastrophe VersoBooks 2016 ISBN 9781784785161 They Fought Alone The True Story of the Starr Brothers British Secret Agents in Nazi Occupied France hardcover Penguin Press 2018 ISBN 9781594206177External links EditOfficial website Talking Heads Who s Supporting Assad on YouTube Vice News 21 May 2015 https worldview stratfor com people 278436 https www nybooks com contributors charles glass References Edit Profile Charles Glass Charlesglass net Retrieved 2016 09 04 Glass Charles May 27 2014 The Deserters A Hidden History of World War II Penguin Books ISBN 978 0143125488 TWA 847 Hijacking Tvnews vanderbilt edu 1985 06 19 Retrieved 2016 09 04 Tribes with Flags by 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