In 1996, Abdel Bari Atwan interviewed Osama bin Laden. He regularly gives talks and lectures internationally, including at the Edinburgh Festival and Harvard University. Atwan has also contributed chapters and essays to several academic and specialist books and journals. Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate was published by Saqi Books and the University of California Press in 2015. He has contributed articles to British newspapers including The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, and The Herald (Glasgow). As editor of Al Quds Al Arabi, Abdel Bari Atwan became a public figure he is a regular guest on Dateline London on BBC World, Sky News, Al Jazeera English and CNN World, as well as on several Arabic-language networks. It has been banned and censored repeatedly in several Arab countries for vocal criticism of what the paper alleges is their autocratic rule and excessive deference to Israel and the United States. The paper is known for its Arab nationalism and advocacy of the Palestinian cause. In 1989, Al Quds Al Arabi was founded by expatriate Palestinians and Abdel Bari Atwan was offered the job as editor-in-chief, which he held until 2013.
In 1980, he set up the London office of Al Madina and in 1984 returned to Asharq Al Awsat. In 1978, he moved to London, where he has lived since then, and assumed a job with Asharq Al Awsat, a Saudi-owned international daily. After his graduation, he began a career in journalism, initially with the Al Balaagh newspaper in Libya, then with Al Madina in Saudi Arabia. In 1970, he entered Cairo University where he studied journalism and received a diploma in English- Arabic translation. After receiving his primary school education at the camp, his schooling was continued first in Jordan in 1967, and then in Cairo, Egypt.
His parents Zilfa and Muhammad Atwan lived in Isdud. Early life and career background Ībdel Bari Atwan was born on 17 February 1950 in Deir al-Balah, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
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