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Michael Goldfarb (author and journalist)

American author, journalist and broadcaster

For American neoconservative writer Michael Goldfarb, see Michael Goldfarb (political writer).

Michael Goldfarb
Born	(1950-09-20) September 20, 1950 (age 74) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	journalist
Alma mater	Antioch College
Notable awards	Sony Award, Edward R. Murrow Award , Lowell Thomas Award

Michael Goldfarb (born September 20, 1950) is an American author, journalist, and broadcaster based in London since 1985. In the United States, he worked for NPR from 1990 to 2005.^[1]

Early life and career

Goldfarb was born in New York City and grew up in suburban Philadelphia. Upon graduating from Antioch College, he returned to New York to work as an actor. Under the name Michael Govan he appeared in productions at Long Wharf Theatre and Arena Stage. In 1984-85 he was a founding member of the Pearl Theatre Company in Manhattan.

Journalism

In November 1985, Goldfarb moved to London to pursue a career in journalism. He has repor

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Michael Goldfarb

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Michael Goldfarb has been Senior Correspondent of WBUR's Inside Out since the program's inception in 2000. Prior to coming to WBUR, Goldfarb was London Bureau Chief of National Public Radio. He has also had a long, fruitful relationship with the BBC, working as presenter of the World Service's flagship arts program Kaleidoscope. He won British radio's highest honor, the Sony Award for his World Service series Homeward Bound. In 2000 Goldfarb was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Series

Books:

Emancipation, November 2009
Hardcover
Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq, July 2005
Hardcover

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Goldfarb, Michael

PERSONAL: Male.

ADDRESSES: Office—WBUR-FM, 890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215.

CAREER:National Public Radio, 1991–, foreign correspondent, London bureau chief, U.S. correspondent.

AWARDS, HONORS: Sony Award for best writing for radio, for the National Public Radio series Homeward Bound.

WRITINGS:

Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq, Carroll & Graf (New York, NY), 2005.

Also author of series Homeward Bound, National Public Radio.

SIDELIGHTS: Michael Goldfarb is an award-winning journalist who has covered the world for National Public Radio. In 2003 he wrote about the invasion of Iraq with the help of his translator friend, Ahmad Shawkat, who also took the journalist to places seldom seen by other reporters. Shawkat was a secular liberal, an Arabic-speaking Kurd who fought in the Iran-Iraq war, and a scholar who had lectured at the University of Mosul. After abandoning his faith in nationalism he was repeatedly tortured by Saddam Hussein's regime. However, after its fall, and with the help of a