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Sep 16, 1973 New York City, New York, United States 50 years old
American television journalist and war correspondent
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About Richard Engel
- Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent.
- He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief.
- Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist.
- He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish.
- Engel wrote the book A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad.
- His newest book, And Then All Hell Broke Loose, published in 2016, is about his two decade career in the Middle East as a freelance reporter. Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War.
