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Thanassis Cambanis
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
ac2888@columbia.edu
Biography:
Adjunct Professor Thanassis Cambanis teaches "Writing About War" at SIPA. He previously served as a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in 2008-2009, and is currently a contributor to The New York Times and Global Post.
Right after American forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, Thanassis crossed the border in a rental car to write about the war's impact on Iraqi civilians. He has reported from the Arab world ever since, first as The Boston Globe bureau chief for Iraq and the Middle East until the newspaper shuttered its foreign desk in 2007, and then as a contributor to The New York Times and Global Post.
His book about Hezbollah and its popular roots will be published in 2010 by Free Press in New York. Thanassis's current reporting projects focus on the dynamic Islamist movements in the Arab world, exploring their social and psychological appeal and the potential to engage them diplomatically.
At the Globe, Thanassis covered federal courts in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. He has reported for The Associated Press in Indonesia and Greece. At Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School he concentrated in international relations while obtaining his Master's in Public Affairs. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina he studied history and creative writing.
He lives in New York City with his wife Anne Barnard, a reporter for The New York Times, and their Odysseas Stamatis Cambanis.