Mark Lavie

Mark Lavie is a journalist who began covering the Middle East in 1972.

[1] He worked as an Associated Press correspondent in the Middle East for 15 years, concluding in 2014.

[1] He won the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for “Best radio interpretation of foreign affairs” in 1994.

[1] Lavie has accused the Associated Press and other news outlets of reporting a biased view of the Israeli Arab conflict.

[2][3][4][5] Following his first book written during the Arab Spring in which Lavie was posted by the Associated Press in Cairo, he wrote a second book describing why Israel's focus on its existential threats is wrong and that the country should focus on its domestic challenges.