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Mark Lavie is a journalist who began covering the Middle East in 1972. [1] [2] Lavie was born and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University in 1969. [1]
He worked as an Associated Press correspondent in the Middle East for 15 years, concluding in 2014. [1] He has worked as a radio reporter for National Public Radio (NPR, U.S.), NBC, Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [1] He won the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for “Best radio interpretation of foreign affairs” in 1994. [1]
Lavie has accused the Associated Press and other news outlets of reporting a biased view of the Israeli Arab conflict. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Following his first book written during the Arab Spring in which Lavie was posted by the Associated Press in Cairo, he wrote a second book describing why Israel's focus on its existential threats is wrong and that the country should focus on its domestic challenges.[ citation needed]