
Ilene Prusher
Ilene Prusher is an award-winning journalist, author and lecturer. She joined the staff of Florida Atlantic University after nearly two decades abroad. She is the founder and Digital Director of MediaLab@FAU, a news-academic partnership that contributes original journalism to the South Florida media landscape.
After completing her master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Ilene chose to focus on international affairs, with a focus on the Middle East and other conflict zones. As a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor from 1996-2010, she covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and served as the newspaper’s bureau chief in Jerusalem, Istanbul and Tokyo. Most recently she served as Jerusalem correspondent for TIME, a columnist for Haaretz, and a program host on TLV1 Radio. Other than FAU, she has taught journalism courses as an adjunct faculty member at NYU-Tel Aviv, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) and ieiMedia. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian and The Financial Times.
Prusher is also the author of the novel Baghdad Fixer (Halban Publishers, London, 2012; Trafalgar Square Publishing, Chicago, 2014.)
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Publications

Baghdad Fixer - Reviews