Maurizio Molinari

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Maurizio Molinari (born 1964 in Rome, Italy) is a journalist in the employ of the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, for which he serves as United States correspondent and for which he previously worked as European Union correspondent in Brussels and as correspondent for diplomatic missions in Rome.

Before arriving at La Stampa in 1997, Molinari, who began his journalism career in 1984 having studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Italy and Manchester College, Oxford in England, covered foreign affairs- and defense-related stories for several Italian newspapers and news magazines, including La Voce Repubblicana, Il Tempo, L'Indipendente, L'Opinione, Il Foglio, and Panorama. Whilst working in Italy, Molinari completed two bachelor's degrees at the University of Rome La Sapienza, in political science in 1989 and history in 1993.

Over his La Stampa career, Molinari has reported on the dipomatic and miltiary involvement of the United States and Italy in the Balkans, Iraq, Iran, North Africa, Turkey, and the Horn of Africa. Molinari is best known for his having been granted interviews with many world leaders, including United States President George Bush; United States Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright, and Henry Kissinger; Israeli prime ministers Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu; Palestinian National Authority president Yasser Arafat; Libyan de facto president Muammar al-Gaddafi; and Venzuelan president Hugo Chávez.

Molinari is a regular guest commentator on Italian foreign policy and United States politics on news programs aired on the Italian television network La7 and the American cable television network CNN as has occasionally been a panelist on the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, aired on the Public Broadcasting Service.

Molinari is the author of nine non-fiction books, each published in Italian and thereafter translated into English: The Jews in Italy: A Problem of Identity (1870-1938) (published by La Giuntina in 1991), The Left and Jews in Italy (1967-1993) (Corbaccio, 1995), The National Interest (Laterza, 2000), Between White House and Botteghe Oscure: Interview with Lamberto Dini (Guerini and Ass, 2001), Wall Street in the Third Millennium (Fondazione Liberal, 2003, No Global? (Laterza, 2003), George W. Bush and the American Mission (Laterza, 2004), and Italy Seen by the CIA (1948-2004) (Laterza, 2005).