David Aikman Biography

David Aikman is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist a best-selling author and a foreign affairs commentator. His wide-ranging professional achievements include a 23-year career at TIME Magazine with reporting spanning the globe of nearly all the major historical events of the time. He appears regularly on TV news shows to provide perspective and insight on breaking news events around the world.
During his years as a foreign correspondent Aikman was based on four continents and reported from 55 countries. He has interviewed some of the biggest newsmakers of the past half-century including five Israeli prime ministers two American presidents Nobel Prize winners Mother Teresa and Elie Wiesel and Russia's first post-Communist leader Boris Yeltsin. He covered wars and revolutions from Russia to Southeast Asia from Central America to the Middle East and was TIME Magazine bureau chief in Berlin Beijing and Jerusalem.
Since leaving TIME Aikman has authored ten books the latest The Mirage of Peace: Understanding the Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East (Regal 2009) released in September 2009 is a comprehensive overview of the nations and societies of the strife-torn region and the historical roots of the intransigent conflicts that have defied attempts to bring a lasting peace.

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