Alex Safian

Alex Safian is associate director of the pro-Israel media-monitoring group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).
Safian is a graduate of Columbia University with a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Safian came to the Boston area to attend Harvard graduate school, and started as a CAMERA volunteer in the early 1990s after he got involved researching an anti-Israeli op-ed piece in a community newspaper. He calls himself "a news junkie" and says the trauma of following the news from Israel as a schoolboy during the 1967 war, a time when the nation's "fate hung in the balance"—was a "formative experience." Of his motivation in general, he says simply, "It motivates me when I see people misrepresenting things."
CAMERA Director Andrea Levin and Safian operate out of CAMERA headquarters in a Boston neighborhood. His articles have appeared in the Middle East Quarterly, Jerusalem Post and the Boston Globe.

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