Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Sasha Polakow-Suransky | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 3, 1979 |
| Education | Brown University Oxford University |
| Occupation | Investigative journalist |
Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is currently executive opinion editor at the Financial Times.[1][2] From 2017-early 2025, he was a deputy editor of Foreign Policy, and before that editor of international opinion at The New York Times op-ed page and a former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.[3]
In 2015 he was an Open Society Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration.[4] His first book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, was published in 2010.[5] His second book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, was published in 2017.[6]
Life
After graduating from Brown University, where he wrote for The College Hill Independent, Polakow-Suransky was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in modern history.[7][8]
He is the younger brother of Shael Polakow-Suransky; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky, South African Jews[9] who were anti-apartheid activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.[10][11]
Works
References
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/stream/caf2716e-5e84-44d4-ad80-2c8d489283a7
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-polakow-suransky-326a1a4/?originalSubdomain=uk
- ↑ Sasha Polakow-Suransky, International Reporting Project, archived from the original on March 28, 2014, retrieved March 25, 2016
- ↑ "Open Society Fellowship: Sasha Polakow-Suransky, 2015". Open Society Foundations. opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
- ↑ Polakow-Suransky, Sasha (May 25, 2010). The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (1 ed.). New York, NY: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780375425462.
- ↑ "Go Back to Where You Came From by Sasha Polakow-Suransky". Hatchette Book Group. hachettebookgroup.com. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
- ↑ Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The American Prospect
- ↑ "Sasha Polakow-Suransky | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
- ↑ Weiss, Philip (December 4, 2010), "The American Jewish belief in the endurance of anti-Semitism is at the core of the problem", Mondoweiss
- ↑ Goodman, Lawrence, "Upgrading Education", Brown Alumni Magazine
- ↑ Beckerman, Gal (June 9, 2010), "Writer Takes Controversial Look at Israel-South Africa Ties", The Forward
- 21st-century American journalists
- American foreign policy writers
- American political journalists
- Jewish American journalists
- The New York Times editors
- American Rhodes Scholars
- Brown University alumni
- Community High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) alumni
- American people of South African-Jewish descent
- 1979 births
- Living people
- American journalist, 1970s birth stubs