Mark Bruzonsky holds dual advanced degrees in international affairs and law from Princeton University (MPA) where he graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School and from New York University Law School (JD) where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. He is a journalist, author, and consultant with special expertise about U.S. foreign policy, international affairs, and the Middle East. He writes and speaks frequently about world affairs, U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, U.S.-Arab and U.S.-Israel relations, and the underlying realities of policy-making in Washington.
In
the past Bruzonsky was the producer and host of the weekly TV program Mid-East Realities TV which was
broadcast from
1994 to 2003 during prime-time hours on all the major cable
TV systems in the greater Washington, DC area.
Prior to that he was Associate Editor of WORLDVIEW MAGAZINE in
New York and Forum Interview Editor of THE MIDDLE EAST MAGAZINE in
London. Bruzonsky has been the Washington
Representative and international affairs consultant for a
number of prestigious organizations including the Woodrow
Wilson Center at the Smithsonian, Congressional Quarterly
(CQ), The National Geographic Society, Okaz
Organization, Goals for Americans, and the World Mental
Health Coalition, among others.
Very early in his career Bruzonsky made world
headlines when he personally met alone in Cairo for more
than an hour with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, a key
historic meeting that led to Sadat's history-changing
visit to Israel. The next morning after this
meeting, with Bruzonsky already on a plane returning to
Israel, a large picture of Bruzonsky meeting Sadat was
published at the top of the front page of leading Egyptian
newspapers. Three
days later Sadat stunned the world announcing he would
visit Israel which he did two days later. Then
during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 Bruzonsky
again made world headlines when
he authored The Paris Declaration published
as nearly the entire front page of LeMonde,
France's leading newspaper, and said to be "The Balfour Declaration
for the Palestinian People".
During his graduate school years
Bruzonsky was Chief Representative at United Nations
Headquarters of the International Student Movement for
United Nations (ISMUN). For more than a decade,
from 1982 through 1994, Bruzonsky wrote a syndicated
newspaper column called From Washington which
was published in leading newspapers throughout the
Middle East including in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan,
Pakistan, and Israel/Palestine. From 1988 through
1995 Bruzonsky was Chairperson of the Jewish Committee On the Middle
East (JCOME), an organization of Jewish
intellectuals and professionals which was the first
American Jewish organization to call for a fully
sovereign and independent Palestinian State and a more
balanced and principled relationship with Israel.
The JCOME Statement of
Principles was initially
published in the Congressional Record and
subsequently in over 50 newspapers and
magazines including The New York Review of
Books, The Nation, and LAWeekly. This
was followed by JCOME publication of dozens of full-page
magazine advertisements focusing on the hard choices
necessary to achieve a real and lasting peace in the
Middle East between Israel, the Palestinians, and the
Arab States, as well as a number of ground-breaking television documentaries.
In addition to being a journalist when he first moved to Washington, Bruzonsky was also the first Washington Representative of the World Jewish Congress at a time when that organization was led by the most distinguished leading independent international Jewish personalities who were his personal mentors -- Dr. Nahum Goldman and Philip Klutznick. It should now be emphasized that Bruzonsky has had nothing to do with the WJC for some time since it was totally taken over by Israel and the extensive Israeli/Jewish Lobby and turned into a mouthpiece for increasingly unacceptable Israeli policies. But in the years the organization was independent and headed by Goldman, Klutznick, and then for two years Edgar Bronfman, Bruzonsky played a significant and crucial role. Among other things he was instrumental in bringing about personal contact and negotiations for a peaceful Israeli-Palestinian settlement between the most senior Jewish international leaders, major Israeli personalities, top officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization, senior officials at the United Nations including the Secretary-General, and key leaders in a number of Arab countries as well as the Soviet Union.
In these many and varied capacities Bruzonsky has made more than 200 international trips to more than 45 countries. He has been the official guest of many governments and organizations including Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, the PLO, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Austria and the Palestine Authority. He made so many international trips that he earned the greatest frequent flyer award in airline history -- a full month of unlimited travel worldwide on Pan Am Airlines.
Bruzonsky
has been invited to speak at many universities as well as
World Affairs Councils, Rotary Clubs and other public
affairs organizations. He has given keynote and major speeches at a number of
leading universities including Princeton, The University of
Chicago, Purdue, Lawrence University, the University of
Illinois, St. Mary's College in California, and Morehouse
College. Bruzonsky was also invited twice to lecture
about U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East at the U.S.
Army War College at Carlyse Barracks in Pennsylvania.
During the historic White House signing
ceremony with Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and President
Bill Clinton, Bruzonsky provided the live commentary
throughout for Canadian National Television (CTV).
Having lived in Washington, DC, for many years, Bruzonsky has a special grasp of how the political, economic, legal, and social systems intersect with the vast array of think-tanks, media organizations, lobbyists, and foreign representatives. His written articles and extensive interviews with key figures -- including former U.N. Secretary-Generals Boutros-Ghali and Kurt Waldheim, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat, Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Moussa Abu Marzook (Hamas), Noam Chomsky, General Matti Peled, and many other important political and intellectual personalities -- have appeared in more than eighty magazines and newspapers in thirteen countries throughout the U.S., Europe, Israel, and the Arab world.
Bruzonsky
is currently working on a number of unique books about
the "Two-State Solution", U.S.-Israel Relations, and
American Foreign Policy.
Publications
in which feature articles written by Mark
Bruzonsky have been published: