Michael Gillespie is a contributing editor at The Independent Monitor,
the national newspaper of Arab Americans. He writes regularly for the
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. A 1999 graduate of the
Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State
University where he was inducted a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, he has
previously worked in radio as a reporter at a university NPR affiliate
station and as project director for community radio station WDVX-fm.
His reportage has been broadcast internationally by Swiss Radio
International.