| Tony Karon has been with TIME.com since 1997, when he joined the
staff as a writer covering international affairs. He is now the senior
editor responsible for TIME.com's
World page, a role in which he coordinates online coverage from TIME
bureaus around the globe. In his
years at TIME, he has written extensively on the Middle East and the
Gulf, Eastern Europe and the
Balkans, international terrorism and a wide array of other international
issues. His Undiplomatic
Dispatch column is devoted to frank (and often impolite!) assessments
of the state of foreign
policy from week to week.
Prior to his arriving at TIME, Karon was the deputy editor of Fox News.com and
before that spent a year at
George magazine. He arrived in New York from his native South Africa in
1993, and took on
freelance writing and editorial work for magazines including Spin,
Esquire and Details, as well as
magazines in France, the U.K., Germany and Japan. He also worked as a
television producer for Britain's
Channel Four network.
In South Africa, from 1987 to 1990 he was the editor of the
anti-apartheid activist magazine New Era,
which published despite regular banning and other forms of harassment by
the apartheid authorities. He
spent a year as a night editor at the daily Cape Times, and later worked
as a correspondent for the Mail &
Guardian Weekly as well as serving as a consultant on development
projects for the U.S. Agency for
International Development and various South African non-governmental
organizations.
Karon graduated with an Honors degree in Economic History from the
University of Cape Town in 1983. In addition to
political and economic issues, he has written about global cultural themes
ranging from hip-hop culture and African diaspora religions to
the post-colonial meanings of cricket.
He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife and son.
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