Journalist and Writer
About Host Mustafa Abdul Malik worked as a reporter, editor, and columnist for U.S, British, Pakistani and Bangladeshi newspapers.
Throughout the decades, he wrote commentaries about international affairs for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, and other American and overseas newspapers and journals.
He worked as a journalism fellow for two American think tanks: the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. As a researcher, he conducted fieldwork for the two think tanks in nine countries in Europe and the Middle East.
Malik appeared continually on American media and think tank forums to discuss U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
He also had a foray into politics and diplomacy. He served as a Pakistani diplomat in Europe and the Middle East; and as press secretary to Nurul Amin, the Chief Minister of East Pakistan, Prime Minister and Vice President of Pakistan, and speaker of the United Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Malik was born in Haflong in the northeast Indian state of Assam; grew up in India and Bangladesh; worked as a newspaper columnist and editor in Bangladeshi and Pakistani newspapers; and spent 36 years working as a journalist in the United States and Britain, and as a researcher for American think tanks.
He travels widely. His favorite haunts: San Francisco, Paris, Innsbruck, Istanbul, the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, and Haflong, Kolkata, and Delhi in India.
Malik lives alternately in the United States and Bangladesh.
