Ben Gittleson's Blog
Monday, November 25, 2013

ABC and an American in 'Arabs Got Talent'

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The control room of "Good Morning America," ABC News' morning show. It's been awhile! Since my triumphant return to...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Carmen's passing

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It's been three weeks since Carmen Weinstein passed away in Cairo, but I wanted to add a few thoughts to the outpouring of articles in ...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Children held hostage in Sinai

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During my last few weeks in Egypt, I tried to learn more about how Eritreans fleeing oppressive conditions at home end up held hostage in E...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The fountains of Iraq

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A Kurdish man sells Muslim prayer beads. Over a year and a half after heading off to Cairo, I moved back to the U.S. last month to se...
Monday, December 17, 2012

The Jews of Egypt

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Since I began living in Egypt -- and once before -- I've been attending services and celebrations with the Jewish community of Cairo. T...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Refugees and protests in Jordan

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Syrian girls study in a school in Irbid, Jordan. Egypt's had an eventful few weeks, and so have I. Bored by the lack of newsworthy...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Torture in the Sinai

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I spent a good chunk of the last week or two working on a piece on human trafficking in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Bedouin have been hold...
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Ben Gittleson
Washington, DC
I'm an assignment editor at ABC News in New York, coordinating network coverage of breaking national and international stories. I previously worked as a freelance journalist based in Cairo and was a former fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo. For more on my work, please visit my website.
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