Marwan Bishara

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Marwan Bishara (Arabic: مروان بشارة) is an Israeli-Arab author, columnist and senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English. From 2009 to 2016, Bishara was the editor and host of their flagship programs Empire, which examined global powers and their agendas in a fusion of documentary and debate with politicians, generals, philosophers, academics, novelists, movie directors, and activists from the world over. He has been described as "one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals" and writes extensively on global politics and is widely considered a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs. Although he was born in Israel, Bishara has spent most of his adult life outside the country, including periods of studying, living and working in the United States and France as well as traveling extensively in the course of his career interests, travel which he has described as providing "perspectives like no other".

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