After completing graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ben Tanosborn set out for a career in international business that would take him to five continents, expose him to several cultures and make him realize the importance for any and all Americans to become goodwill ambassadors for the United States.
Robert Boldt is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Tags: Robert BoldtBob Boldt
Christine Smith is a freelance writer and political activist from Colorado. She has written numerous articles for state, national and international publications (newspapers, magazines, online publications) covering a wide range of topics: the arts, technology, business, politics, health, environment, social justice, human spirituality, and profile interviews with high achievers.
Christopher Ambe Shu, a contributing editor to MWC News, is a journalist based in Cameroon,with more than twelve years of reporting and writing experience.In 1996,he bagged a BSc.(Hons) in Journalism and Mass Communication(JMC) from the University of Buea,Cameroon's only English-speaking and Anglo-Saxon university.
Don Williams is a widely published columnist, short story writer, and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual literary anthology.
His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award, the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize (Tennessee's Top Associated Press Managing Editors Award), Five Writer of the Month Awards in the Scripps Howard Chain, twice Runner-up for Writer of the Year, and others.
Elias Akleh is an Arab writer from a Palestinian descent born in the town of Beit Jala. His family was first evicted from Haifa after the “Nakba” of 1948, then from Beit Jala after the “Nakseh” of 1967. He lives now in the US, and publishes his articles on the web in both English and Arabic.
Dr Gideon Polya, a contributing editor to MWC News Magazine, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and in 2007 published “BODY COUNT. Global avoidable mortality since 1950
Jimsecor is a freelance writer who has travelled extensively overseas, especially Japan and China. Jim received a Master's from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas before studying at the National Puppet Theatre of Japan (Bunraku), the first foreigner ever to do so. He has published in all genres and produced several plays over the years and has taught theatre, writing and literature in three countries. Jim is an ex-pat writer and professor.
K Gajendra Singh, served as Indian Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan in 1992-96. Prior to that, he served as ambassador toJordan (during the 1990-91 Gulf war), Romania and Senegal . He is currently chairman of the Foundation for Indo-Turkic Studies, in Bucharest . The views expressed here are his own.- He can be reached at: Gajendrak@hotmail.com
Kathlyn Stone is a Twin Cities, Minnesota-based independent journalist who has covered general news, and business, international trade, and health care news and policies for public and professional audiences since 1980.
Kourosh Ziabari, born in 1990, is an Iranian young journalist, media correspondent and blogger. He speaks English, Arabic, Deutsch and Italian to various degrees and is also acquainted with Turkish. Politically, he has got an independent viewpoint and claims himself as "non-aligned to any political movement, wing or coalition", yet trying to defend the truth, standing against the widespread black propaganda of mainstream media against his country by purveying a realistic viewpoint of Iran to the public opinions.
L. Ali Khan initially trained as a civil engineer. He later switched to law, obtaining a law degree from Punjab University, Lahore. In 1976, Khan immigrated to the United States and studied law at New York University School of Law where he received his LL.M. and J.S.D. Khan is a member of the New York Bar.
Marjorie Cohn, a contributing editor to MWC News Magazine, is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, President of the National Lawyers Guild, and the US representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists.
Michael Werbowski is a freelance reporter who specializes in environmental issues. He graduated from the University of Leeds, UK and wrote his MA dissertation in post-communist studies on the topic of EU enlargement to the nations of "new" central Europe.