After spending nearly three years in the Middle East covering U.S.-Arab relations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and regional politics, Vivian Salama is now back in the United States completing a masters degree in Arab and Islamic politics at Columbia University.
She has written for the Daily Star, Newsweek, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, the Jerusalem Post and other publications. She has also appeared as a political commentator on the BBC, South African Broadcasting Corp., and as a reporter and commentator for Voice of America radio. Prior to working in the Middle East, she was a producer for WNBC News in New York.