Eric Margolis Biography
Eric Margolis is a journalist and author of American origin. He was a contributing editor for the Toronto Sun network of newspapers for 27 years, finishing in 2010, writing primarily about the Middle East, South Asia, and Islam.
How old is Eric Margolis? – Age
He is 80 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1943 in New York, New York, United States.
Eric Margolis Family – Education
Margolis was born to Henry M. Margolis and American-Albanian Nexhmie Zaimi. His father was a successful New York businessman, restaurateur, theatrical producer, and investor, while his mother was a journalist and novelist. Eric Margolis holds degrees from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and the New York University MBA Program.
Eric Margolis Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2.5 million.
Eric Margolis Huffington Post – Journalism
Margolis contributes to the Huffington Post on a regular basis, as well as Dawn, an English-language Pakistani daily, the Gulf Times in Qatar, the Khaleej Times in Dubai, The New York Times, and The American Conservative. He appears on CNN, Fox, CBC, British Sky Broadcasting News, NPR, and CTV on a regular basis. He is a regular guest on TV Ontario’s The Agenda, having previously been on its predecessor show Studio 2.
He is a member of many organizations, including the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Islamabad-based Institute of Regional Studies.
Eric Margolis Career
Margolis describes himself as a “Eisenhower Republican.” Margolis’ domestic political views are relatively conservative (he is an anti-communist and a defender of capitalism), but his opinions on the Middle East are diametrically opposed to those of the neoconservatives. Margolis wrote in a 2009 essay that Ron Paul is an American politician he really admires. Margolis has stated that he opposes the Republican Party of 2010 due to the rising influence of the Tea Party movement, which he claims now plays to its adherents’ anxieties and biases.
Margolis is well-known for his reporting on Palestine and Kashmir. Margolis’ mother, Nexhmie Zaimi, was a journalist who spent most of the 1950s in the Middle East documenting the misery of Palestinians. Margolis had a deep interest in the Muslim World as a result of her influence, as well as his work as a foreign journalist in the Middle East and his travels with the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War. Margolis labeled the Gaza War a “final solution campaign” by Israel in a January 2009 essay headlined “Eradicating Hamas,” and described Hamas as a popular revolutionary force that has spoken up for the rights of Palestinians who had been “ethnically cleansed” in 1948.
Eric Margolis Book
Margolis of the Toronto Sun praised Pat Buchanan’s book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War as a “powerful new book” in a book review headlined “Deflating the Churchill Myth” in November 2008.