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Raghida Dergham is columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based Al Hayat, the leading independent Arabic daily newspaper. She is based at the United Nations and writes a regular weekly strategic column on international political affairs.

Dergham, who has worked for Al Hayat since 1989, is also a political analyst for NBC, MSNBC and the Arab satellite LBC. She is a contributing editor for LA Times Syndicate Global Viewpoint and has contributed to Newsweek and the New York Times, Washington Post and International Herald Tribune.

Dergham has interviewed such figures as Jordan's King Abdallah and the late King Hussein; Pakistan’s President Parviz Musharref, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak; Palestinian Presidents Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Arafat; Iraq’s Jalal Talabani, Yemen's Abdallah Saleh; Sudan's Omar Al-Bashir; Lebanon’s PM Fouad Siniora; She also interviewed Ramzi Youssef.

A Lebanese-born American citizen, Dergham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served on the advisory council of Princeton University's Institute for Transregional Studies of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.

Dergham is in the State University of New York’s Hall of Fame as a distinguished alumna. She received an honorary doctorate of letters from SUNY in 2003.

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