Delinda Curtiss Hanley joined the U.S. Peace Corps as a volunteer teacher in the Sultanate of Oman
Delinda Curtiss Hanley
Delinda Curtiss Hanley is news editor as well as the executive director of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a 124-page nearly monthly magazine with the largest circulation of any Middle East related publication in North America. The Washington Report features insightful analysis of the political, economic, and historical realities of the U.S.-Middle East relationship. Each colorful issue is packed with special reports on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, current Middle East issues, and grassroots activism in the U.S. and abroad. The magazine is important to every Muslim- and Arab-American organization because it is the only magazine that will report on every group's symposiums, lectures, dialogues and activities. The magazine also focuses on U.S. lobbying groups involved in crafting U.S. policy.
Backgound Information:
Delinda Curtiss Hanley was born in 1955 and spent most of her childhood in the Middle East accompanying her foreign service officer father Richard Curtiss, co-founder of the Washington Report. After attending the American University in Washington, DC, and American University of Beirut, she earned a degree in English Education at the University of Maryland. She taught in the United States until joining the U.S. Peace Corps as a volunteer teacher in the Sultanate of Oman. After her Peace Corps service was complete she worked in the Musandam Province of Oman and later Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her husband. Returning to the United States in 1988 she worked for a publisher as a copy editor, picture researcher and finally as the coordinating editor for four magazines. In 1996 she came to work for the Washington Report and is now the executive director as well as the news editor. She writes extensively for the Washington Report on an array of topics and her stories have also been published in the Arab News, Saudi ARAMCO World, the Minaret, and Islamic Horizons, and other U.S. magazines. She has written extensively on Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, the emergence of the Muslim voice in American politics, and fairness in the American media. Ms. Hanley has given speeches focusing on the Muslim bloc vote or Palestinian rights at various conferences or demonstrations across the United States.
