MARK A. BRUZONSKY
Bruzonsky is today the publisher of MiddleEast.org and the
Washington
Representative of the Goals for Americans Foundation. He
frequently writes and speaks about U.S. foreign policy, the Middle
East,
and U.S.-Israeli relations.
Bruzonsky was the featured speaker at a major symposium at Princeton
University in 2006 along with internationally known Professor
Cornell West and the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Anne Marie Slaughter. The theme
of the symposium was "Intellectuals
and the Institution: What's in the Service of the Nation"? 
Bruzonsky was also the keynote speaker before
an audience of more than 3000 at the Palmer House Hilton Ballroom for
the University of Chicago Model United Nations in
2002. He is the only keynote speaker to ever have
received a standing ovation from the entire audience at this yearly
event.
In the past Bruzonsky was Associate Editor of WORLDVIEW MAGAZINE in New York and Interview Editor of THE MIDDLE EAST MAGAZINE in London. He was Washington Representative of The World Jewish Congress from 1977 to 1984 as well as Special Assistant to Philip M. Klutznick -- the most senior Jewish leader in the country at the time who was uniquely President of both B'nai B'rith International and the World Jewish Congress,as well as Secretary of Commerce during the Carter Administration.
Bruzonsky has been a consultant on the Middle East for a number of prestigious organizations including Congressional Quarterly (CQ), The National Geographic Society, Okaz Organization for Press and Publications in Saudi Arabia, and The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian where he edited the book SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST; REGIONAL CHANGE AND GREAT POWER STRATEGIES along with the Center's Deputy Directory. His previous book, THE MIDDLE EAST, U.S. POLICY, ISRAEL, OIL, AND THE ARABS was published by CQ and he was special Middle East consultant for an educational film-strip series titled THE MIDDLE EAST published by the National Geographic Society.
In these many and varied capacities Bruzonsky has made more than 150 visits to countries in Europe and the greater Middle East region from Libya to Pakistan. He has been the official guest of many governments and organizations in a number of countries including Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, the PLO, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Pakistan.
Early in his career, in November 1977,
Bruzonsky
made
world headlines when he personally met alone with Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat and encouraged him to visit Israel. As a result
Egyptian President
Anwar
Sadat immediately decided to send the first public telegram from the
Arab world
to Israel and a few days later decided to visit Israel as
Bruzonsky had urged. A picture of Bruzonsky meeting with Sadat
appeared on
the front
page
of many Egyptian newspapers. Again in 1982 Bruzonsky made world headlines
when he authored The Paris
Declaration
which was published on page1 of LeMonde with a full top-of-page
banner headline. This historic statement was uniquely signed by
Nahum
Goldman
(founder of both the World Jewish Congress and the World Zionist
Organization), Philip Klutznick
(former
U.S. Secretary of Commerce and President of both the World Jewish
Congress
and B'nai B'rith International), and Pierre Mendes-France (former
President of France)
-- three of the world's most senior and respected
Jewish leaders at the time. In their responses to this historic
statement Yasser Arafat and the PLO Representative
in Europe, Dr. Isam Sartawi, considered this 'Paris Declaration' to be
a modern-day Balfour Declaration for the Palestinian
people that would hasten the creation of an independent Palestinian
State and lead to a general Middle East peace between Israel and the
Arab States.
During his graduate school years Bruzonsky was Chief Representative to the United Nations of the International Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN) traveling to 35 countries. ISMUN at the time was the only student and youth NGO with the highest "Consultative 1" status.
For more than a decade, From 1982 through 1994, Bruzonsky wrote a regular bi-weekly syndicated newspaper column called From Washington that was
published
in a number of leading newspapers in the Middle East including Al-Ahram
in Egypt, Ad-Dustour in
Jordan, The Muslim in
Pakistan, Okaz
in Saudi Arabia, and a weekly Palestinian magazine in
Jerusalem. The many hundreds of columns
are now being archived and will be available online at this columns link. And
from 1988 through 1995
Bruzonsky
was Chairperson of the Jewish Committee
On the Middle East (JCOME), an
organization of Jewish intellectuals and academics which was at the
time the first major American Jewish organization to call for a
fully sovereign Palestinian State and was a leading voice for new U.S.
policies in the Middle East..
In 1989 Bruzonsky was invited to be part of a special year-long panel of experts and distinguished citizens organized by the Middle East Institute and The Atlantic Council which resulted in the publication of a special report, Western Interests and U.S. Policy Optons in the Middle East. Bruzonsky wrote the only major dissent published in the report.
In 1995 Bruzonsky
was one of a select group of
ten Middle East experts featured in a special multimedia CD about
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the "peace process," titled
LINES
IN THE SAND, published by Tiger Media in Canada.
From
1994
through 2004 Bruzonsky was the producer and host a weekly TV Program
that was broadcast on all the
major
cable systems in the greater Washington, DC
area as well as for some years in New York and Philadelphia.
Bruzonsky has lectured at many universities and public affairs organizations including the Rotary Club. And he has given keynote or major speeches at a number of leading universities including Princeton University, The University of Chicago, Lawrence University, the University of Illinois, and Moorehouse College
Bruzonsky was also twice invited to lecture
about the Middle East at the U.S. Army War College at Carlysle Barracks
in
Pennsylvania. During the historic White House signing ceremony
with Yitzhak
Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Bill Clinton, Bruzonsky provided the live
commentary for Canadian
National
Television (CTV).
Magazine Cover "A Look At The Middle East"
Major Publications & Media:
"WAR OF THE WORLDS" - PLAYBOY Magazine (Slovenia), October 2001
LINES IN THE SAND, a multi-media CD about the Middle East (one of 10 special experts included on video), Tiger Media (Canada) - 1995.
LET US RETHINK OUR SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL, Editor and author of Introduction, Prof. Charles Black, The Jewish Committee On The Middle East (JCOME) - 1990.
SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: REGIONAL CHANGE AND GREAT POWER STRATEGIES, Co-Editor with Deputy Director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian, WestView Press - 1987.
THE MIDDLE EAST - Special consultant on the Middle East for this 5-part educational film-strip series, National Geographic Society - 1985.
THE MIDDLE EAST; U.S. POLICY, ISRAEL, OIL, AND THE ARABS (3rd Ed.), Editor and author of Introduction, Congressional Quarterly (Washington) - 1977.
A UNITED STATES GUARANTEE FOR ISRAEL? Georgetown University Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, Washington) - 1977.
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