{{short description|Lebanese-American journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Hisham Melhem | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!-- just the name, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Villanova University | occupation = journalist | years_active = mid-1980s to present | employer = Al Arabiya News Channel, An-Nahar | organization = | known_for = journalism, foreign policy analysis | notable_works = | television = Al Arabiya News Channel | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = | partner = <!-- unmarried life partner; use ''Name (1950–present)'' --> | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} --> | footnotes = }} '''Hisham Melhem''' ({{langx|ar|هشام ملحم}} ''Hišām Melḥem'') is a Lebanese-American journalist who currently serves as Washington bureau chief of Al Arabiya News Channel and as a correspondent for ''An-Nahar'' newspaper.<ref name=alarabiya> {{cite web | title = Hisham Melhem | publisher = Al Arabiya | url = http://english.alarabiya.net/authors/H/Hi/Hisham-Melhem.html | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref>
==Biography== ===Background=== Melhem studied philosophy at Villanova University, and after graduating in 1976 with his B.A., spent three years working on a doctorate in philosophy at Georgetown University.<ref name=Freed>{{cite web |title=Hisham Melhem |publisher=Alan L. Freed Associates |url=http://www.publicpolicyseminars.com/melhem.html |accessdate=2009-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131084127/http://publicpolicyseminars.com/melhem.html |archive-date=31 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Career=== Melhem has reported for Radio Monte Carlo and ''Al-Qabas'' and ''An-Nahar'' newspapers and has served as Washington bureau chief for ''As-Safir'' newspaper.<ref name=Freed/>
He has also been the Washington bureau chief for Al Arabiya, and hosted their U.S.-Arab relations program, ''Across the Ocean'', for four years.<ref name=Freed /><ref name=frontline> {{cite web |title=Interview: Hisham Melhem |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/interviews/melhem.html |publisher= PBS Frontline |date=September 2001 |accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref><ref name=alarabiya />
He writes for others publications, appears on news programs, and speaks publicly.<ref> {{cite web | title = Interview: Hisham Melhem | date = 4 October 2001 | publisher = PBS Frontline | url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/interviews/melhem.html | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite web | title = Hisham Melhem | publisher = C-SPAN | url = http://www.c-spanvideo.org/hishammelhem02 | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite web | title = Hisham Melhem | publisher = Aspen Ideas | url = http://www.aspenideas.org/speaker/hisham-melhem | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref> He is an expert for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars<ref> {{cite web | title = Hisham Melhem | publisher = Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | url = http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/hisham-melhem | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130703185030/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/hisham-melhem | url-status = dead | archive-date = 3 July 2013 | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Media Literacy: What Makes for Credible Reporting [Arabic] | publisher = U.S. Department of State | url = https://conx.state.gov/event/wpfd-media-literacy-what-makes-for-credible-reporting-arabic/ | date = 10 May 2012 | accessdate = 3 July 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130222020249/https://conx.state.gov/event/wpfd-media-literacy-what-makes-for-credible-reporting-arabic/ | archive-date = 22 February 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Keynote Speaker: Hisham Melhem | publisher = International Affairs Conference | url = http://internationalaffairsconference.org/drupal/node/71 | date = June 2013 | accessdate = 3 July 2013 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130703185114/http://internationalaffairsconference.org/drupal/node/71 | archive-date = 3 July 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref> He has appeared as a news commentator about Middle Eastern and other foreign policy areas on PBS NewsHour for nearly two decades.<ref> {{cite news | title = What Next for the Peace Process? | publisher = PBS NewsHour | url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/mideast_11-6b.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19970617084725/http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/mideast_11-6b.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 17 June 1997 | date = 6 November 1995 | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite news | title = Golan Talks | publisher = PBS NewsHour | url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/mideast_12-27.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19970618004036/http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/mideast_12-27.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 18 June 1997 | date = 27 December 1995 | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref>
===Interviews=== On 26 January 2009, Al Arabiya News Network was given the first official interview with the newly inaugurated President Barack Obama: Melhem conducted the interview.<ref> {{cite news |first=Scott |last=Macleod |title=How Al-Arabiya Got the Obama Interview |publisher=TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1874379,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130115648/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1874379,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 January 2009 |date=2009-01-28 |accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref><ref> {{cite news |first=Jeffrey |last=Goldberg |title=Hisham Melhem on His Big Scoop, and Big Changes Coming |publisher = Atlantic Monthly | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/01/hisham-melhem-on-his-big-scoop-and-big-changes-coming/9456/ |date= 29 January 2009 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref>
Major interviews to date include: * President George W. Bush * Secretary of State Colin Powell<ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Secretary Colin Powell |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/19921.htm | date = 24 April 2003 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Secretary Colin Powell |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/32481.htm | date = 13 May 2004 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref> * Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage<ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Secretary Colin Powell |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = http://2001-2009.state.gov/s/d/former/armitage/remarks/36686.htm | date = 30 September 2004 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref> * Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice<ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Secretary Condoleezza Rice |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/43002.htm | date = 3 March 2005 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Secretary Condoleezza Rice |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/may/84468.htm | date = 7 March 2007 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Secretary Condoleezza Rice |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/10/111040.htm | date = 16 October 2008 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref> * Secretary of Defense Robert Gates * Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen * President Barack Obama * Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Hillary Rodham Clinton |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = https://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/11/150842.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101115172155/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/11/150842.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = 15 November 2010 | date = 10 November 2010 |accessdate=3 July 2013}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |title=Interview: Hillary Rodham Clinton |publisher= U.S. Department of State |url = https://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/02/156575.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110217053043/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/02/156575.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 February 2011 | date = 14 February 2011 |accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
==Writings== * ''Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy'' (1997)<ref> {{cite book |first=Hisham |last=Melhem |title= Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy |publisher= Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University |place=Washington |year=1997 |url=http://ccas.georgetown.edu/research-papers.cfm?id=121&view=print}}</ref><ref> {{cite web | title = Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy | publisher = Library of Congress | url = http://lccn.loc.gov/2002280772 | accessdate = 3 July 2013}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://archive.today/20140919190138/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/the-barbarians-within-our-gates-111116.html#.VE5ZQCKsXgA The Barbarians Within Our Gates] Politico Magazine, 18 September 2014 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130910224718/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/02/reporter-arab-allies-view-obama-as-wobbly-indecisive-not-strong-enough/ Hisham Melhem on The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN] 2 September 2013 *[http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2014/09/30/arab-civilization-has-collapsed-hisham-melhem/ Post-Arab Spring, Hisham Melhem fears 'Arab civilization has collapsed'] The Current, CBC Radio, 30 September 2014 *{{C-SPAN|32448}}
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