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Helena Cobban
FCNL Friend in Washington
Writer and internationally syndicated columnist Helena Cobban joined FCNL as a Friend in Washington in February 2007. Helena is a Contributing Editor of the Boston Review and author of the popular weblog “Just World News. From 1990 to 2007 she contributed a column on global affairs to The Christian Science Monitor. Her syndicated columns regularly appear in numerous publications across the country, reaching a combined readership of over 3 million people.
Born in England in 1952, Helena received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University. From 1974 through 1981, she worked as a journalist in the Middle East, including five years as a Beirut-based correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, and The Sunday Times of London. Since 1982, she has lived primarily in the United States, though her work has taken her back to the Middle East and to many parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. She is fluent in Arabic and French.
Helena has held research fellowships at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the Brookings Institution, and elsewhere. She served on the U.S. Institute of Peace Working Group on Regional Arms Control in the Middle East (1991-92), and has testified on Middle East issues before a number of committees of the U.S. Congress. She has published six books and serves on Human Rights Watch's Middle East advisory committee.
A Quaker, Helena has been an active member of Charlottesville Friends Meeting for nearly ten years. She is married with three adult children.
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06/25/2008
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