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Bruce Blair is the president of the World Security Institute, a nonprofit organization that he founded in 2000 to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs.
4 April 2008
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Babak Yektafar
25 September 2006
Babak Yektafar is the editor in chief of Washington Prism, a weekly online journal of culture, politics and public affairs in Persian. Prior to launching Washington Prism, Yektafar was a producer with C-SPAN network for six years during which he produced a daily, live, nationally broadcast public affairs program called Washington Journal. Yektafar was also the vice president for production at Fairfax Public Television from 1993 to 1998. From 1996 to 2000, Yektafar was the producer of a local radio show in Persian called Radio Velayat’s Silk Road. This show, broadcast throughout Northern Virginia, was distributed via mail-in cassettes to major cities in the North East, and featured topics on current affairs and society.
Yektafar is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University with a degree in communications.
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