Evening with journalist Mark Lavie

Join us for an evening with international correspondent, Mark Lavie.

Mark has been covering the Mideast since he moved to Israel in 1972. Most of his work has been in radio news, starting as an anchor and reporter for Israel Radio’s English-language news service and continuing as Middle East correspondent for radio networks including NPR, NBC, Mutual, and CBC in Canada. He won the New York Overseas Press Club’s Lowell
Thomas Award for “Best radio interpretation of foreign affairs” in 1994. He’s
now a news analyst and commentator for The Media Line.

In 2014 he wrapped up fifteen years with The Associated Press, where he
served as a reporter and editor for the news agency’s print service and
Middle East Correspondent for AP Radio and its 850 stations in North
America. In 2009, he began splitting his time between AP’s Jerusalem bureau
and its Cairo regional hub. He moved to Cairo in 2011 and worked there for
two years, experiencing Arab Spring first hand. His first book, “Broken
Spring,” is based on those events.

His second book, “Why Are We Still Afraid?” is a personal look at 46 years of
Israeli history, following the author through his personal and professional
experiences in real time, and it comes to a clear and surprising conclusion.
Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Mark graduated from Indiana
University with a degree in political science in 1969.

Mark is married with four children and eleven grandchildren. He is an
Orthodox Jew who sometimes leads services in his local synagogue and sings
in the synagogue choir.