James M. Dorsey

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James M. Dorsey (born August 12, 1951 ) is an international journalist and consultant.

Dorsey began his journalistic career in 1975 at Trouw . He then went to Jerusalem, Tehran, Kuwait, Cairo and Beirut as a Middle East correspondent and reported, among other things, on the civil war in Lebanon , the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Iran-Iraq war and the Israeli-Arab conflict and the peace process in the Middle East . He has worked for media such as The Christian Science Monitor , for the UPI news agency and The Wall Street Journal, and also reported from Latin America and Africa. Dorsey was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize . Ethnic and religious conflicts were preferred subject of his reports - lately finds his football - Blog "The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer" much attention.

From 1987 to 1991, Dorsey worked in Washington, DC as a diplomatic and security correspondent. Dorsey was peripherally involved in the Waldheim affair through Hans Pusch . However, he refused to distribute incriminating material about Kurt Waldheim without giving the source. Dorsey is currently a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the owner of Quest Ltd. Since January 2013 he has also been co-director at the Institute for Fan Culture at the University of Würzburg .

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SURNAME Dorsey, James M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1951