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Tyler Golson, Contributor

 

Tyler Golson received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. in Arab studies from Georgetown University and is working toward a second M.A. in Arabic language and translation through the University of Maryland. His primary research interests are Levantine politics, Arab mass media and Muslims in the West. Golson grew up in Ardsley, N.Y., and currently splits his time between Washington, D.C., and Damascus, Syria.


Publications

“Found in Translation,” The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24th, 2004; (published under pseudonym “Tyler MacKenzie,”)

“Found in Translation,” reprinted in extended form as, “The Best hope for Democracy in the Arab World: A Crooning TV ‘Idol’?,” Transnational Broadcasting Studies, Volume 13, Fall 2004

“In Damascus, they voted for George W. Bush,” The Beirut Daily Star, Dec. 4th, 2004

               

               


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