Neil MacFarquhar
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| Neil MacFarquhar | ||
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| Born | c. 1960 | |
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| Occupation | journalist, novelist | |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; The Sand Cafê (novel) | |
Neil Graham MacFarquhar has been a national correspondent, based in San Francisco, for The New York Times since November 2006. Among his previous assignments at the Times was as Cairo bureau chief.[1].
MacFarquhar went to elementary school in Libya and is a fluent speaker of Arabic. He graduated from Stanford University in 1982.[2]
A number of his stories for the newspaper are about Muslims in the United States.[1]
MacFarquhar is also the author of The Sand Cafe, a novel partly written during his recuperation from an accident where a runaway bus hit MacFarquhar and his bicycle on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Sand Cafe. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2006. ISBN 1586483684 ISBN 978-1586483685
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Advertising supplement (unnamed, but part of the "These times demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the back page of the supplement), in which the New York Times advertises itself in the October 31, 2006 edition of the newspaper, page ZK11 of the 16-page supplement
- ^ Post, Dan. "Five Questions for Neil MacFarquhar: Droll Jab at Journalists' Exploits Echoes Reality." The San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2006.
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