Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen (born 2 August 1955) is a journalist and author. He is a columnist for The New York Times and International New York Times. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in fifteen different countries.

Early life and education

Cohen was born in London to a Jewish family. His father, Sydney Cohen, a doctor, emigrated from South Africa to England in the 1950s. In the late 1960s, Roger studied at Westminster School, one of Britain's top private schools. He won a scholarship and would have entered College, the scholars' house, but was told that a Jew could not attend College or hold his particular scholarship (as the scholarship which was initially offered to him, was only intended for persons who professed the Christian faith, as he later learned while researching the affair). Instead, he received a different scholarship.

In 1973, Cohen travelled with friends throughout the Middle East, including Iran and Afghanistan. He drove a Volkswagen Kombi named 'Pigpen' after the late keyboard playing frontman of the Grateful Dead. (In the article cited, Cohen misidentifies Pigpen as a drummer.) He attended Balliol College, Oxford University. Cohen graduated with M.A. degrees in History and in French in 1977. He then left that year for Paris to teach English and to write for Paris Metro. He started working for Reuters and the agency transferred him to Brussels.

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Famous quotes by Roger Cohen:

"I think the head and the heart should be united in the strongest writing. You shouldn't lose your ability to be discerning. Good journalism should have emotional content ... Of course, you should try to present every side, and present with real empathy."
"This century has been a very bloody one,"
"We should try to help lay the basic foundation for this part of Europe to move forward and enjoy some of the prosperity and stability that we are enjoying at the end of this century."
"I told her there was unease, discomfort, unhappiness over some of the coverage. There was concern that she'd been convinced in an unwarranted way, a way that was not holding up, of the possible existence of W.M.D."
"I told her there was unease, discomfort, unhappiness over some of the coverage, ... There was concern that she'd been convinced in an unwarranted way, a way that was not holding up, of the possible existence of WMD."
"Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo"
"If you write a 'good news' story from Iraq you are immediately identified as an apologist for the administration ... and if you write something critical then you're in the other camp."
"There's a very sophisticated campaign to instill fear in journalists, Western and non-Western."
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NSA REPORT. The NUMEC Affair and Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program. INTRO BY ... VIDEO ... (Source. and ). National Security ArchiveDocument collection and introduction by Roger J ... Roger J. Mattson, Avner Cohen, and William Burr, Israeli Nuclear History Series. .
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