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About Brian Whitaker
- Brian Whitaker has been a journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian since 1987 and was its Middle East editor from 2000 to 2007. He studied Arabic studies at the University of Westminster and Latin (BA Hons) at the University of Birmingham.
- He is currently an editor on the Guardia's blog "Comment is free".
- He also writes articles for Guardian Unlimited, the internet edition of the paper.
- He runs a personal, non-Guardian-related website, Al-Bab.com, about politics in the Arab world.
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