20 Facts About Charles Glass

Charles Glass was born on November 18, 1951 and is an American-British author, journalist, broadcaster and publisher specializing in the Middle East and the Second World War.

Charles Glass was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993, and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer.

Charles Glass writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, and on television networks, all over the world.

Charles Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East and a collection of essays, Money for Old Rope: Disorderly Compositions (1992).

Charles Glass wrote "Deserter: The Untold Story of World War II" His most recent book is They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France (Penguin Press, 2018).

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One of Charles Glass's best known stories was his 1985 interview on the tarmac of Beirut Airport of the crew of TWA Flight 847 after the flight was hijacked.

Charles Glass broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages and had hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut, which caused the Reagan administration to cancel a rescue attempt that would have failed and led to loss of life at the airport.

Charles Glass made headlines in 1987, when he was taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi'a militants.

Charles Glass describes the kidnapping and escape in his book, Tribes with Flags.

Charles Glass has three sons, one daughter and two stepdaughters and lives variously in France, Italy, Britain and Lebanon.

Charles Glass's maternal grandmother was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic from Ehden, and his father's family emigrated from Ireland to Maryland in 1700.

Charles Glass began his career in 1973 with ABC News in Beirut, where he covered the Arab-Israeli war in Syria and Egypt with Peter Jennings.

Charles Glass became the network's chief Middle East correspondent, a position he held for ten years, before deciding to freelance.

Charles Glass has made many documentary films for U S and British television, including Pity the Nation: Charles Glass' Lebanon; Iraq: Enemies of the State about military escalation and human rights abuses, broadcast six months before Iraq invaded Kuwait; Stains of War about war photographers; The Forgotten Faithful about the Palestinian Christian exodus from the West Bank; Our Man in Cairo; Islam for London Weekend Television; and Sadat: An Action Biography for ABC.

Charles Glass is a lecturer on Middle East and international affairs in Britain and the United States.

Charles Glass was the Books Editor of the Frontline Club Newsletter in London and is a publisher under his imprint, Charles Glass Books, in London.

Glass's one-hour documentary on Lebanon, Pity the Nation: Charles Glass's Lebanon, was broadcast in 20 countries, prompting the London Evening Standard critic to call it "one of the best and most heart-rending documentaries [he had] ever seen.

Charles Glass made Stains of War, and The Forgotten Faithful (1994), which looked at the situation of the Palestinian Christians who have left the West Bank.

Charles Glass returned to Iraq in 2003 to cover the American invasion for ABC News and wrote about the war in Harper's Magazine with photographs by a friend, Don McCullin.

Charles Glass won an Overseas Press Club award in 1976 for his radio reporting of the deaths of Palestinians at the Beirut refugee camp at Tel el Zaatar; and he has shared the British Commonwealth and Peabody Awards for documentary films.