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Nadia Bilbassy-Charters has been based in Washington DC since June 2003. She was Alarabiya TV Diplomatic Correspondent till June 2008. She rejoined MBC group as their Chief Correspondent and media personality in the United States. She covers the White House and the State Dept. She focuses on America's foreign policy and its relationship with the Arab and Musllim worlds. She is the only Arab journalist to have interviewed President George W Bush six times. Ms Bilbassy was based in Nairobi, Kenya as a war correspondent from 1996-2003. She covered most of Africa's wars .In 2003 she was embedded with 101 Marine Division on the push to Baghdad. Prior to moving to Africa, she was based in Colombo, Sri Lanka as a reporter for IPS, and the Independent newspaper .Ms Bilbassy started her career with Agence France Press, AFP in both Gaza and Jerusalem covering the first Palestinian Intifada of December 1987. She also lectures in many US universities. In 2006 she was chosen as an international fellow at Yale University.She is a regular contributor to the Diane Rehm show on NPR Radio.|Specialties: Arab media, women issues, foreign policy, US national security,Muslim Affairs.