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Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary". Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book ''A Fist in the Hornet's Nest'', published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His newest book, ''War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq'', published in June 2008, picks up where his last book left off. Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war. ==Early years== Engel grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.〔 He has an older brother who is a cardiologist. His father, Peter, a former Goldman Sachs financier, and mother Nina, who ran an antiques store, feared for their son's future prospects because of his dyslexia. His mother is of Swedish descent and his father is of Jewish descent.〔Engel, Richard ("War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq" ), November 13, 2012; "My mother is Swedish, born in Gottberg" | "So you speak Arabic, live in the Middle East, Are you Jewish? .... Half I said. My father is Jewish, my mother is not."〕 Engel attended the Riverdale Country School, a highly competitive college-prep school in New York City,〔(Engel's educational background )〕 and later went to Stanford University, where he occasionally wrote for ''The Stanford Daily.'' He spent one summer as an unpaid intern at CNN Business News in New York City. He graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a B.A. in International Relations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Engel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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