Rahgida Dergham

Raghida Dergham is Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for the London-based Al Hayat, the leading independent Arabic daily, since 1989. She writes a regular weekly strategic column on international political affairs as well as editorials. She is also a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. Ms. Dergham has been a frequent guest on CNN, FOX NEWS, PBS's The News Hour and Charlie Rose, ABC, CBS, CNBC, Canada's CBC and CTV, as well as a radio guest on NPR and the BBC. She has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune. Ms. Dergham was featured in PBS documentary Caught in The Crossfire.

Ms. Raghida Dergham offers her readers and lecture audiences an important and critical point of view from the Arab world.

Marjorie Ranson of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University has said that "the Middle East is not only a part of the world marked by stark difference and violent collisions. It is also marked by nuance and complication. Raghida has the intellect and fluency in English and Arabic, which allows her to go beyond the headlines to see the opportunities."

She can bring insight not only into the cultural chasm between the Arab and Western Worlds, but what must be done to bridge that gap. From mail bombs to military tribunals, her career has brought her into jeopardy on more than one occasion.

She has interviewed numerous US and Foreign Ministers and Heads of State and has broken major news stories, including the secret talks in Oslo.

Dergham is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation. Dergham is also the Chairman of the Dag Hammarskjold Fund Board. She was the only journalist to interview Ramzi Youssef, the alleged mastermind of the first attack on the World Trade Center.