Quotes by : Richard Engel

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are....

In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn’t....

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for....

When I came to the Middle East, journalists had a kind of immunity that allowed us to travel freely and....

In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing....

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion....

Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you’re Superman, invincible. In....

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s....

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment.....

The administration often used the analogy of planting the “seeds of democracy” in the Middle East,....