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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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Barack Obama's Moment

By Jeffrey Goldberg

May 2 2011, 12:58 AM ET Comment

Osama Bin Laden Our President, in the blink of an eye, has gone from a hyper-criticized, seemingly-swamped possibly-one-term leader to an American hero, a commander-in-chief who calmly oversaw the killing of the greatest mass murderer in American history. Josh Green has thoughts about what this means, long-term.

What does this mean for the Middle East? Quite a bit. America's friends -- I'm thinking of the Israelis, and the Saudis (who just saw their most hated, and threatening, son, neutralized by a U.S. that constantly seems to be saving the Saudis from existential challenges) -- will be forced to grapple with the demands of a newly-empowered President. If Obama can pivot from this historic moment to the Israeli-Arab peace process; to the task of finishing the job in Libya; to the important work of countering the influence of Islamists in crucial states such as Egypt; to defusing the crisis in Bahrain; he will do a world of good for the cause of justice.


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