MARK
BRUZONSKY
"I've never
heard anyone who
has made this stuff as clear as you...
It
was like somebody
had just
opened the windows and
the light came pouring
in."
Anchorman
Keith Morrison
commenting about Mark Bruzonsky
during the historic White
House
Arafat-Rabin-Clinton ceremony.
(Morrison, then host of CTV, is
now with Dateline NBC)
Call on Skype
at all times and let ring until answered
Mark Bruzonsky holds dual advanced
degrees
in international affairs and law from the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public
and International Affairs at Princeton University (MPA) and New
York University School of Law (JD) where he was a Root-Tilden
Scholar. His undergraduate degree (BA in economics and
government) is from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Bruzonsky is the publisher of MiddleEast.org and the
now under development WashReport,
and
he writes and
speaks frequently about world affairs, American 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, now head of Policy
Planning at the U.S. Department of State. The important theme
of the symposium was "Intellectuals
and the Institution: What's in the Service of the Nation"?
Bruzonsky was the keynote speaker before
a standing-room-only audience of more than 3000 at the Palmer House
Hilton Ballroom for
the University of Chicago Model United Nations in
2002, the only keynote speaker to ever receive a standing ovation at
this yearly
event.
For many years from 1994 to
2003 Bruzonsky produced the weekly TV program Mid-East Realities which showed
during primetime evening hours on all the cable TV systems in the
Washington, DC area including the largest cable systems in Fairfax,
Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland. 
In the past Bruzonsky was Associate Editor of WORLDVIEW
MAGAZINE
in New York and Interview Editor of THE MIDDLE EAST MAGAZINE
in London. He also has been the Washington Representative for a
number of organizations and early in his career he was the first
Washington
Representative of The World Jewish
Congress at the urging of Dr. Nahum Goldman. Bruzonsky was also
the Special Assistant to Philip M.
Klutznick,
one of the most senior American Jewish leaders and the only man to have
ever been President of B'nai B'rith
International and the
World Jewish Congress as well as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 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. At WWICS he co-edited with the
Deputy Director the book SECURITY IN
THE MIDDLE EAST; REGIONAL CHANGE AND GREAT POWER STRATEGIES .
His previous book -- THE MIDDLE EAST, U.S. POLICY, ISRAEL, OIL, AND
THE
ARABS -- was published by Congressional Quarterly (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 200 trips 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, Kenya, Ethiopia, and
Pakistan.
Very early in his career
Bruzonsky
made
world headlines when he personally met alone with Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat and encouraged him to visit Israel. At that meeting
Sadat immediately decided to send the first public telegram from the
Arab world
to Israel and a few days later decided to visit Israel just as
Bruzonsky had advocated. A picture of Bruzonsky meeting with
Sadat
appeared on
the front
page
of major Egyptian newspapers just days before Sadat's announcement.
The previous year Bruzonsky was the
subject of a
column by Washington
Post Editor Steven Rosenfeld, singled him out for his
insightful commentaries regarding U.S. policies toward
the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Again in 1982
Bruzonsky made world headlines
when he authored The Paris
Declaration published with full top-of-page
banner headline in LeMonde. 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 senior 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 at the U.N. 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 Palestinian weekly in
Jerusalem. The many hundreds of columns
are now being archived and will soon be made available here. 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 American Jewish organization to call for a
fully sovereign and independent Palestinian State. The JCOME Statement
of Principles was
published in the Congressional Record
and in over 50 newspapers and magazines including The New York Review of Books, The Nation,
and LAWeekly.
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 dissent
published in the report, which in subsequent years proved to be right
on
target.
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. Many of those TV programs are now available
at MERTV Programs
and
Mid-East
History Programs .
Bruzonsky has lectured at many
universities
and
public affairs organizations World Affairs Councils, Rotary Clubs, and
other public affairs organizations. He has given keynote and major speeches
at a number of leading
universities including Princeton, The University of Chicago,
Lawrence University, the University of Illinois, and Morehouse
College. Bruzonsky was also twice invited to lecture
about U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East at the U.S. Army War
College at Carlyle Barracks, PA. During the
historic White House signing ceremony
with Yitzhak
Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Bill Clinton, Bruzonsky provided the live
commentary for Canadian
Television 
.
Having
lived in Washington, D.C., for many years Bruzonsky has a special grasp
of how
the political and legal systems intersect with the vast array of
think-tanks, media organizations, lobbyists, and foreign
representatives. His written articles and extensive
interviews
with key figures including former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, Israeli leader Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat,
Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Moussa Abu Marzook (leading Hamas official),
Noam Chomsky, and other important political and intellectual
personalities have appeared in more than 35
magazines and newspapers in eleven countries throughout the U.S.,
Europe, Israel, and the
Arab
world.
Magazine Cover "A Look At The Middle
East"
Column Illustration
With the current Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton
Publications
in which
feature
articles written by
Mark Bruzonsky
have been
published:
USA PUBLICATIONS:
Atlanta Constitution Journal
Boston Globe
CSIS Reports
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Commonweal Magazine
Congressional Quarterly
Dissent Magazine
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Weekly
International Security (Harvard)
Middle East Journal
Moment Magazine
The Nation Magazine
National Geographic Society
The National Jewish Monthly
The New Renaissance
Newsday
Palestine Perspective
Politicks
Sacramento Bee
The Journal of Palestine Studies
The Journal of the Middle East Institute
The Washington Post
The Washington Star
Worldview Magazine
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
INTERNATIONAL
PUBLICATIONS:
Al-Biyader Al-Siyyaseh (Jerusalem)
Ad Dustour (Amman)
Al Ahram (Cairo)
Al-Siyassah (Kuwait)
Contemporary Review (London)
Events (London)
Haolam Hazeh (Tel Aviv)
International Affairs (London)
The Muslim (Islamabad)
International Problems (Tel Aviv)
The Jerusalem Star (Amman)
Israel & Palestine (Paris)
Journal of Palestine Studies (Beirut)
Le Monde (Paris)
Liberation (Paris)
Middle East International (London)
New Outlook (Tel Aviv)
Okaz (Jeddah)
Playboy Magazine (Slovenia)
Rose El Yusef (Cairo)
The Middle East Magazine (London)
The Saudi Gazette (Jeddah)
No War (Gentosha Publishing, Japan)
