Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times. An Arabic speaker, he spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, much of that time in Gaza. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Greatest Evil Is War and Requiem for Gaza. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has also taught for over a decade in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system. He holds a BA from Colgate University in English literature and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.