European Journalism Institute

Ibrahim Al-Marashi is an Associate Professor of Middle East History at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). Formally, he taught courses on Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, and Conflict Resolution and the Media at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, and at the UN University of Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has worked with organizations such as UNDP, UNESCO, and other NGOs on developing media in post-conflict environments, particularly Iraq.

His research deals with the security issues in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, and is the co-author of Iraq’s Armed Forces: An Analytical History (Routledge, 2008) and The Modern History of Iraq (Westview, 2017), and the Modern History of the Middle East (Routledge 2018).

He obtained his D.Phil. at University of Oxford, completing a thesis on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He is also a 2001 graduate of TFAS’ Institute for Political and Economic Studies (IIPES) convened in Chania, Greece. Ibrahim is an Iraqi-American who lived at various times in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey, and has travelled extensively through the Middle East, Balkans, East Africa, and South Asia.

Mr. Sean Gallup is chief news photographer in Germany for Getty Images. Based in Berlin, he assigns and produces news and features coverage with a team of freelance photographers for Getty in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

His photographs appear regularly in news publications and outlets across the globe and have appeared on the front pages and covers of Time, Newsweek International, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Der Spiegel, Vanity Fair, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times, Financial Times, Toronto Star, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, among others. Sean photographed a series of portraits relating to right-wing extremism that was initially exhibited at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden in 2013 and subsequently toured to 12 venues across Germany.

Sean is also author of “Journeys Into Czech-Moravian Texas.” He has a bachelor of arts in political science from Williams College and a master of arts in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Paul Glader teaches writing, journalism and business-related courses at The King’s College in New York City and is the executive director of The Media Project. He also directs the McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute, the NYC Semester in Journalism program and is adviser to the student online newspaper, print magazine and video platform – the Empire State Tribune. He is residency director for the business reporting program of the Dow Jones News Fund. Glader was the Laventhol/Newsday visiting professor at Columbia Journalism School in the Spring of 2018, serving as lead faculty for the Masters of Arts business seminar.An award-winning journalist, Glader spent 10 years as a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal, covering a variety of beats including technology, travel, metals and mining, health and science, and finance. He’s written for countless other publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TheNewYorker.com, Indianapolis Star, The Associated Press, Der Spiegel Online, FastCompany.com, USA Today and ESPN.com. He has appeared on national TV and radio programs including CNBC, Fox Business and WSJ Radio. He currently writes for several national magazines including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, ChristianityToday and The American Legion and edits a page on creativity and leadership at Forbes.com.

Glader is a two-time alumnus of the TFAS programs, having completed the Institute on Political Journalism (IPJ) in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems (AIPES) in 2000 in Prague. Glader received a bachelor’s degree in political science from The University of South Dakota and his master’s degree from Columbia University in New York as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Graduate School of Business in 2007-08. He is currently an executive MBA candidate at The Berlin School of Creative Leadership at Steinbeis University in Germany. Glader lived in Germany from 2011-13, first as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow and then as a European Journalism Fellow at Freie Universität in Berlin. He enjoys surfing, reading and traveling with his wife and daughters.

Mr. David Rocks is a senior editor for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg BusinessWeek in Berlin, shepherding European coverage for the magazine and helping journalists from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa tell their stories and improve their writing. Previously, he was senior editor for global news at BusinessWeek, overseeing correspondents and coordinating bureaus from Mexico City to Mumbai. Rocks was the magazine’s Asia editor for four years, leading coverage in Asia and writing his own stories about technology, politics, design trends and more. He also served as managing editor of e.biz, a monthly technology supplement to BusinessWeek, and as a correspondent in the magazine’s Atlanta bureau.

Before joining BusinessWeek, Rocks spent eight years in Prague as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. Prior to that, he was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. His work both for BusinessWeek and other publications has taken him to scores of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.

Rocks has taught journalism and led seminars at universities in Colorado, Indiana, California, India and Jordan. He has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Colby College in Waterville, Maine and a Master of Arts in international communications from American University in Washington, D.C.