Process or processing typically describes the action of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures or steps to convert it from one form to another, such as processing paperwork to grant a mortgage loan, processing milk into cheese, or converting computer data from one form to another. A process involves steps and decisions in the way work is accomplished, and may involve a sequence of events.

The process that one follows is as important as the results that are produced by the process. Without understanding the underlying process, it is difficult to know how a certain set of results were achieved, or why they were good or bad. So, if results are viewed as the "destination", then process can be viewed as the "vehicle" that gets you there (and ideally, you should be able to use the same "vehicle" for many trips...with a few modifications based on the desired destination!)

Process or processing may refer to:

Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts

Process haircut, which uses a Relaxer chemical agent to straighten hair

Science and technology

Process (engineering), in the article, engineering which is collaborative and concerned with completing a project as a whole; or, in general, a set of transformations of input elements into output elements with specific properties, with the transformations characterized by parameters and constraints

Systems engineering process, a process for applying systems engineering techniques to the development of systems

Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism

Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds

Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system

Process control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with controlling the output of processes

Process theory, the scientific study of processes

Stochastic process, in probability theory, a random process, as contrasted to a deterministic process

Process (patent), usually refers to a manufacturing process

Food processing, transforming raw ingredients into food

Information processing, change (processing) of information detectable by an observer

Process Manufacturing, manufacturing concerned with formulas and recipes

Signal processing, analysis of images and time-varying measurement values

Process ontology‎, a description of the components and their relationships that make up a process

Computers

Process (computing), a computer program or an instance of a program running concurrently with other programs

Process group, in POSIX-conformant operating systems, a collection of one or more processes

Processing (programming language), a programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities

Computer data processing, using a computer to enter data and convert data into usable information

Word processing, creation of documents using a word processor

Geometry processing, or mesh processing, processing of 3D models

Medicine, biology, and psychology

Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body

Biological process, a process of a living organism

Cognitive process, the process of thought

Mental process, functions or processes done with the mind

Processing (Chinese materia medica), the technique of altering the properties of crude drugs by such means as roasting, honey frying, wine frying, earth frying, vinegar frying, calcining, or other means

Business

Business process, activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for customers

Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items

Business process mapping, activities involved in defining a business entity

Process architecture, the structural design of process systems

Process management, the activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process

Process modeling, processes of the same nature are classified together into a model

Business process management (BPM), a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients

Business process modeling (BPM), in systems engineering and software engineering, the activity of representing the processes of an enterprise

Law

Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law

Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case

Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding

Music

Process music, music which arises from a process

''Process'' (Candy Lo album)

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name	Gideon Levy
birth date	1953
birth place	Tel Aviv, Israel
education	M.A. Political Science, Tel Aviv University
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Gideon Levy (; born 1953) is an Israeli journalist. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper ''Haaretz'' that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. A notable journalist on the Israeli left, Levy has been characterized variously as a "propagandist for the Hamas" to a "heroic journalist".

Biography

Levy was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv, the son of immigrants from Germany. Levy’s father was a German Jewish lawyer from the Sudetenland. Fleeing from the Nazis in 1939, Levy senior parted from his parents at a railway station in Prague and never saw them again. For six months he lived on a refugee boat that was turned away from many ports until finally reaching Mandate Palestine. Levy attended Public School Alef. Levy and his younger brother Rafi would often sing together, notably songs composed by Haim Hefer. During the Six-Day War, the street adjacent to his home was hit by Arab artillery. Levy describes his political views as a teenager as typically mainstream. "I was a full member of the nationalistic religious orgy. We all were under the feeling that the whole project [of Israel] is in an existentialistic danger. We all felt that another holocaust is around the corner."

Levy resides in the Ramat Aviv neighborhood of Tel Aviv (on the lands of Sheikh Munis) , and is a divorced father of two.

Journalism and media career

In 1974, Levy was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces where he served as a reporter for Israel Army Radio. From 1978 to 1982 he worked as an aide to Shimon Peres, then leader of the Israeli Labor Party. In 1982, he began to write for the Israeli daily ''Haaretz''. In 1983–1987, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief. Despite his coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict, he speaks no Arabic. He has written a column called "Twilight Zone" about the hardships of the Palestinians since 1988. In 2004, Levy published a compilation of articles entitled ''Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation''. With Haim Yavin, he co-edited ''Whispering Embers'', a documentary series on Russian Jewry after the fall of communism. He hosted ''A Personal meeting with Gideon Levy'', a weekly talk show that was broadcast on Israeli cable TV on channel 3, and has appeared periodically on other television talk shows.

Levy has said that his views on Israel's policies toward the Palestinians developed only after joining ''Haaretz''. "When I first started covering the West Bank for Haaretz, I was young and brainwashed," he said in an interview. "I would see settlers cutting down olive trees and soldiers mistreating Palestinian women at the checkpoints, and I would think, 'These are exceptions, not part of government policy.' It took me a long time to see that these were not exceptions — they were the substance of government policy."

In an interview, he said he doubts that any other newspaper in Israel apart from Haaretz would give him the journalistic freedom to publish the kind of pieces he writes.

Views and opinions

Levy defines himself as a "patriotic Israeli." At the same time he criticizes what he sees as Israeli society's "moral blindness" to the effects of its acts of war and occupation. He has referred to the construction of settlements on private Palestinian land as "the most criminal enterprise in [Israel's] history". He opposed the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, and the view that civilian casualties were inevitable. In 2007, he said that the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, then under Israeli blockade, made him ashamed to be an Israeli."My modest mission is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say 'We didn't know'," said Levy in an interview.

Levy supports unilateral withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories without concessions. "Israel is not being asked 'to give' anything to the Palestinians; it is only being asked to return - to return their stolen land and restore their trampled self-respect, along with their fundamental human rights and humanity."

Levy wrote that the Gaza War was a failed campaign and its objectives were not achieved. "The conclusion is that Israel is a violent and dangerous country, devoid of all restraints and blatantly ignoring the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, while not giving a hoot about international law," he wrote in an editorial.

In 2010, Levy described Hamas as a fundamentalist organization and holds it responsible for the Qassam rockets fired at Israeli cities: "Hamas is to be blamed for launching the Qassams. This is unbearable. No sovereign state would have tolerated it. Israel had the right to react." He is against boycotting Israel: "I am an Israeli who does not boycott Israel so I cannot call on others to do so."

Praise and criticism

Levy's writing has aroused controversy. He has been praised by Johann Hari of ''The Independent'' as "the heroic Israeli journalist", and his columns are cited often in ''The New York Times'' and other newspapers. The French newspaper ''Le Monde'' praised him as a 'thorn in Israel's flank' and ''Der Spiegel'' characterized him as "[Israel's] most radical commentator".^-[a]

His opponents criticize him for being anti-Israeli, and for supporting Palestinian radicalism. "Is it wrong to ask of reporters in a country that is in the midst of a difficult war to show a little more empathy for their people and their country?" asked Amnon Dankner of the ''Maariv'' newspaper. Ben Dror Yemini, the editor of the opinion page of ''Maariv'', called Levy one of the "propagandists for the Hamas". Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch, writes in the website of ''Arutz Sheva'', a publication supporting the Israeli settlers in the West Bank, "[One of] the current Israeli heroes [of the Hamas], from whom the Palestinians garner support for their ways, [is] Gideon Levy ..." ''Arutz Sheva'' also lambasted Levy's article about the Jerusalem bulldozer attack in Jerusalem in 2008, which was translated into Arabic on a Hamas website. In 2006, Gideon Ezra, Israel's former deputy Minister of Internal Security, suggested that the General Security Services should monitor Levy as a borderline security risk.

Israeli novelist Irit Linur set off a wave of subscription cancellations to ''Haaretz'' in 2002, when she wrote an open letter to the paper cancelling her own subscription. "It is a person's right to be a radical leftist, and publish a newspaper in accordance with his world view... However ''Haaretz'' has reached the point where its anti-Zionism has become stupid and evil," she wrote. She also accused Levy of amateurism because he does not speak Arabic.

Other public figures also cancelled their subscriptions, including Roni Daniel, the military and security correspondent for Israeli Channel 2. ''Haaretz's'' publisher, Amos Schocken, expressed puzzlement at Linur's letter, describing his newspaper as "exceedingly Zionist" and defending Levy's reports as "a description of the effects of the Israeli occupation in the territories". Levy himself joked that there is a thick file of anti-Levy cancellations in the Haaretz newsroom.

Awards

In 2008, the Anna Lindh foundation, which describes its goal as "bring[ing] people together from across the Mediterranean to improve mutual respect between cultures," awarded Levy the Anna Lindh journalism prize for an article he wrote about Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel awarded him the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award in 1996 for promoting human rights, and he has won numerous other awards for his writing.

Published works

Books

''Twilight Zone - Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation. 1988-2003''. Tel Aviv: Babylon Printing, 2004

''The Punishment of Gaza'', Verso Books, 2010, ISBN 9781844676019

Articles

"Ship of Fools" in: "Due Process" in:

References

External links

PBS">Interview with Levy on PBS (2003)

Selection of articles by Levy

Gideon Levy's Official Lecturer Page

An open letter to Gideon Levy By A.B. Yehoshua, Haaretz 16/01/2009

An open response to A.B. Yehoshua By Gideon Levy

"Interview with Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy", Am Johal, ''Worldpress.org'', September 19, 2010

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name	Dore Goldדורי גולד
order	11th Israel Ambassador to the United Nations
term start	1997
term end	1999
predecessor	Gad Yaacobi
successor	Yehuda Lancry }}

Dore Gold (, born 1953) is an Israeli statesman who has served in various diplomatic positions under several Israeli governments. He is the current President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He also served as an advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in office.

Early life

Dore Gold was born in 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish home. His primary education was spent at the Orthodox Yeshiva of Hartford In the 1970s, Gold attended Mount Hermon School (Class of 1971) and then enrolled in Columbia University. There Gold earned BA and MA in Political Science, and then a PhD in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies.

He studied literary Arabic and specialized in International Law, and his doctoral dissertation was about Saudi Arabia. This research later formed the foundation for his 2003 ''New York Times'' bestseller, ''Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism''. In the book, Gold argues that Saudi Arabia actively funds terrorism by supporting the enemies of the U.S. and attacking its allies. Today, Gold lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Ofra, and his two children, Yael and Ariel.

Career

Dore Gold's political career began in 1985 when Gold served as senior research associate at Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Centre for Near East Studies. Later, he was appointed Director of the U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy Project at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Peace Negotiations

In 1991 Gold was an advisor to the Israeli delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference. From June 1996 to June 1997 he served as Foreign Policy Adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the period in which Benjamin Netanyahu served as the head of the Israeli opposition, Gold was instrumental in forging the relationship between the Likud Party leadership and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in response to the strategic ties that were growing between Israel's Labor government and the PLO under Yasser Arafat. Gold accompanied Netanyahu to meetings with the Jordanian leadership in 1994 and 1995 in London, Amman, and in Aqaba. As the Foreign Policy Adviser under Netanyahu after the 1996 elections, Gold worked with the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan and others in the Arab world. He was also involved in negotiations leading up to the Hebron Agreement and the Note for the Record.

East Jerusalem and the Oslo Accords

Gold himself has not written about the period in which he served as an envoy to the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world; nonetheless, a number of revelations have been disclosed by other authors. According to Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Gold and Netanyahu advisor Yitzhak Molcho were the first envoys of the newly-elected Likud government to meet with Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip on June 27, 1996. Dennis Ross relates to the "Abu-Mazen-Dore Gold" talks that ensued afterwards as a result of which the Palestinians closed down offices in East Jerusalem that Israel had argued were a violation of the Oslo Accords. This was the price that Arafat had to pay for his first meeting with Netanyahu. It was a hard concession for the Palestinians, according to Ross, for it was viewed by them as a "symbolic retreat on East Jerusalem."

Syria and the Golan Heights

On the Syrian negotiating track, former Israeli ambassador to the US, Itamar Rabinovich, describes how he concluded with Gold an understanding over the Monitoring Group for Southern Lebanon, which was followed by a direct discussion between Gold and the Syrian ambassador to the US, Walid Muallam According to the French journalist, Charles Enderline, Gold secured a commitment from Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the Rabin "deposit" on the future of the Golan Heights did not bind the State of Israel. This effort also included obtaining a new US commitment from the Clinton administration to the September 1975 Ford letter, in which it was stated that the US would give great weight to Israel remaining on the Golan Heights. According to the Israeli Hebrew daily, ''Maariv'', Christopher wrote this re-newed commitment in a formal letter of assurances to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 19, 1996.

Ambassador to the United Nations

From 1997 to 1999 Gold was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. In 1998 Gold served as a member of the Israeli delegation at the Wye River negotiations between Israel, the PLO, and then U.S. President Bill Clinton at the Wye River Plantation in Maryland.

Later life

Since 2000 Gold has served as president of the non-profit institute, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. From 2001 to 2003 Gold served as an advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, most notably at the Aqaba Summit with President George W. Bush. During this period, Gold regularly appeared on US network television programs on behalf of the Sharon government, including ''Meet the Press'', ''The Today Show'', CNN's ''Late Edition'', as well as on ''Fox and Friends''. In July 2003, Gold testified as an expert before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on Saudi Arabia's alleged role in providing ideological and financial support for international terrorism.

Measures Against Ahmadinejad

Since 2006 Gold led an international effort by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs to advocate that UN member states take legal measures against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on grounds that he violated the anti-incitement clauses of the 1948 Genocide Convention, with his repeated statements about "wiping Israel off the map." Gold led a delegation to a conference held jointly with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the New York County Bar Association on December 14, 2006. Speakers included former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, Prof. Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, and the US ambassador to the UN John Bolton. Senator Hillary Clinton sent a letter of support to the conference.

Gold led an Israeli delegation to a second conference at the British House of Commons on January 25, 2007 which was chaired by Lord David Trimble and supported by members of the British Labor Party and the Conservative Party. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined the Israeli team. As a result of this effort, over 60 members of the House of Commons called for the indictment of Ahmadinejad. A third event organized by Gold and the International Association of Genocide Scholars was held on September 23, 2008 in Washington D.C. Speaking at the third conference was Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the UN, as well as Salih Mahmoud Osman, a member of the Sudanese Parliament and advocate for human rights in Darfur.

The Doha Debates

In April 2009 Gold participated in the Doha Debates at Georgetown University in Washington DC, where he debated against the motion "this house believes that it is time for the USA to get tough on Israel" with fellow speaker Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Speakers for the motion were Avraham Burg, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and former Speaker of the Knesset and Michael Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA Bin Laden Issue Station. Gold and Dershowitz lost the debate, with 63% of the audience voting for the motion.

Debate with Justice Richard Goldstone

Brandies University invited Ambassador Gold to debate Justice Richard Goldstone on November 5, 2009. The subject was the U.N. Gaza Report. Jeff Jacoby wrote in the ''Boston Globe'' on November 7: "Dore Gold, Israel's former ambassador to the U.N. brought facts and figures, maps and photographs, audio and video in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. Last night's encounter marked the first time Goldstone publicly debated the report's merits with a leading Israeli figure. It would not surprise me that he is in no hurry for a second." In the Israeli daily, ''Maariv'', Ben Dror Yemini wrote on November 7: "The former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. was prepared and articulate in the debate." For at least two years that followed Goldstone refused to debate any more Israelis.

Appearing at the International Criminal Court in the Hague

Ambassador Gold was invited to attend a roundtable meeting at the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, held on October 20, 2010. A total of eight specialists appeared and submitted papers. They discussed the Palestinian Authority's declaration on January 22, 2009 recognizing the jurisdiction of the ICC, in accordance with an article in the Rome Stature, normally reserved for states. The PA was seeking the implicit recognition of the ICC Prosecutor that it already was a state.

Reactions

Harris Schoenberg, Director of UN Affairs for Bnai Brith

"He was forceful, he was eloquent. He was dramatic," said the director of United Nations affairs for Bnai Brith, Harris Schoenberg, on Ambassador Gold's maiden address at the UN

A.M. Rosenthal, ''New York Times''

Writing in his weekly column on Israel not belonging to a regional group in the U.N., ''New York Times'' op-ed writer and former editor, A.M. Rosenthal, noted on October 8, 1999: "Dore Gold, leaving soon after a tour of duty as one of the best U.N. representatives Israel ever had, points out that membership in regional groups is a requirement for nomination to the Security Council."

Prince Bandar bin Sultan

In response to Dore Gold's testimony before the United States House of Representatives International Relations Subcommittee, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Ambassador to the United States, remarked, "It should be known that Dore Gold is not an expert on Saudi society, faith or culture. He is simply hatred's scribe.

Positions held

1985-1996 - Senior research associate, Dayan Centre for Near East Studies. Director, US Foreign and Defense Policy Project at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

1991 - Advisor, Madrid Peace Conference.

1996-1997 - Foreign policy advisor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

1997-1999 - Israeli ambassador, United Nations

1998 - Israeli delegation, Wye River negotiations

2000–Present - President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

2002-2004 - Advisor, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Publications

Books

Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West'' (Regnery, 2009). ISBN 1-59698-571-2

''The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City'' (ISBN 0786147849 / Publisher: Regnery, Blackstone Audiobooks / Date: Jan 2007)

''Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos'' (Crown Forum, November, 2004). ISBN 1-4000-5475-3

''Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism'' (Regnery, 2003). ISBN 0-89526-135-9

''American Military Strategy in the Middle East: The Implications of the US Regional Command Structure (CENTCOM) For Israel'' (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publications), 1993.

''Israel as an American Non-NATO Ally: Parameters of Defense and Industrial Cooperation'' (Boulder: Westview Press), 1992.

Selected articles

'Land Swaps' and the 1967 Lines. ''The Weekly Standard''. June 20, 2011.

Israel's 1967 Borders Aren't Defensible. ''The Wall Street Journal''. May 21, 2011.

Countdown to September. ''Jerusalem Viewpoints''. May, 2011.

Foreign Policy. April, 2011.

Statement before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives . April 5, 2011.

The International Context of the U.S. Veto at the UN Security Council . ''Makor Rishon''. February 25, 2011.

Israel’s Naval Blockade of Gaza Is Legal, Necessary . ''Bloomberg''. June 10, 2010.

Iran's Nuclear Aspirations Threaten the World. ''LA Times''. August 6, 2009.

Israel's Forgotten Rights in Jerusalem. ''Haaretz''. May, 2009.

Did Israel use "Disproportionate Force" in Gaza?. ''JCPA''. December 28, 2008.

The Dangers of 'Peace' Making: America's Latest Efforts Merely Entrenched al Qaeda in the Gaza Strip. ''Wall Street Journal''. August 12, 2007.

Wartime Witch Hunt: Blaming Israel for the Iraq War. ''Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs''. June 1, 2004.

Saudi Arabia's Dubious Denials of Involvement in International Terrorism. ''Jerusalem Viewpoints''. Oct 1, 2003.

Saudi Support for International Terrorism. ''U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs''. July 31, 2003.

The Kingdom of Incitement. ''Wall Street Journal''. April 14, 2003.

Baseless Comparisons: UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel (Jerusalem Issue Brief, 24 September 2002).

Only Buffer Zones Can Protect Israel. ''The New York Times''. Feb 27, 2002.

References

External links

Dore Gold's Personal Website

Biography of Dore Gold from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Biography of Dore Gold from the Jewish Virtual Library

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies

Prince Bandar responds to remarks by former Israeli official (Saudi Arabia Embassy press release)

Dore Gold interviewed for the Jerusalem Post

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Rizwan "Riz" Khan (Urdu: ريز خان; born April 1962) is a British television news reporter and interviewer who until April 2011 hosted his own eponymous television show on Al Jazeera English. He first rose to prominence while working for the BBC and CNN.

Life and career

Khan was born in Aden, South Yemen, to a Punjabi father and Gujarati mother. His father's roots are in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, while his mother's roots go back to Kutch, Gujarat. He considers himself as a British Pakistani. Khan moved with his family to London, at the age of four. He attended both Springwell Junior and Hounslow Manor Comprehensive Schools and joined the Air Training Corps, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Medical Physiology from the University of Wales, and then completed a postgraduate course in Radio Journalism at the University of Portsmouth.

In 1987 he was selected for the BBC News Trainee scheme - a two-year BBC training system, usually taking only 6 people per course. Khan progressed to jobs as a BBC reporter, producer, and writer, working in both television and radio, and would later become one of the founding News Presenters on BBC World Service Television News. He hosted the news bulletin that launched BBC World Service Television News in 1991. In 1993, he moved to CNN International, where he became a senior anchor for the network's global news shows. Events he covered included the 1996 and 1999 coverage of elections in India; the 1997 historic election in Britain; and in April 1998 the unprecedented live coverage from the Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj.

In 1996 he launched his interactive interview show ''CNN: Q&A with Riz Khan'', and he has conducted interviews with guests including former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, and genomic scientist J. Craig Venter. Khan also secured the world exclusive with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf following his coup in October 1999. Khan also hosted ''Q&A-Asia with Riz Khan''. These interactive shows put world newsmakers and celebrities up for viewer questions live by phone, e-mail, video-mail and fax, along with questions and comments taken from the real-time chatroom that opens half-an-hour before each show.

Until April 2011, Khan had his own show, ''Riz Khan'', on Al Jazeera English, in which he interviewed analysts and policy-makers and invited viewers to interact with them via phone, email, SMS messages or fax.

Khan speaks Urdu and Hindi and also understands other South Asian languages such as Punjabi and Kutchi. He has studied French, and can understand some other European languages, including Swedish and Norwegian.

In 2005 he authored his first book, ''Al-Waleed: Businessman Billionaire Prince'', published by Harper Collins.

In 2011 he authored a preface for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) annual report "Attacks on the Press 2010", which examined working conditions for journalists in more than 100 countries.

References

"Why I'm Joining Al Jazeera", op-ed by Riz Khan, ''The Wall Street Journal'', 13 June 2005, p. A1

"Q&A CNN Anchor: Riz Khan". ''India Today''. February 19, 2001.

External links

Riz Khan's official website

Profile at Al Jazeera English

MySpace Profile

Interview with Baron Dave Romm of KFAI-FM at the Republican National Convention Sept. 2, 2008 and picture

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