Walter R. Ratliff
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Walter Ratliff is a journalist working in Washington, DC. His professional life has taken him from the jungles of the Philippines to the deserts of the Middle East. Recently, he completed a series of documentary reports on Islam in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Great Britain’s immigrant community and America’s prisons.
In 2004, Ratliff earned a master’s degree in Islam and Muslim – Christian Relations from Georgetown University. This followed a master’s from Wheaton College, the Evangelical academic flagship. He also holds a joint degree in Journalism and Religious Studies from the University of New Mexico.
In 2001, Ratliff launched the Washington, DC operation for the online division of the Associated Press. Just prior to joining the world’s largest newsgathering organization, he produced a documentary on Muslim-Christian violence in northern Nigeria, and covered the funeral of executed human rights leader Ken Saro-Wiwa in the Niger Delta region.
His international research and documentary work includes Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. While on an archeological dig with Harvard University near the Gaza Strip, he witnessed the upheaval surrounding Yasser Arafat’s return from exile following the Oslo Accords.
He has also worked as a reporter for a leading ABC affiliate, and covered Capitol Hill as freelance correspondent for Christianity Today magazine. He began his broadcasting career as a teenager at KLYT-FM in Albuquerque, NM.
After moving to the nation's capital, he worked closely with Arabs, Israelis and Europeans delivering news from the United States. Ratliff sits on the advisory board for Eagle TV, a Mongolian station that remains one of the only independent broadcasters in Central Asia.
