Cal Perry

Cal Perry is currently Al Jazeera English's Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem. He joined AJE in January of 2011. He served as CNN Bureau Chief in Baghdad, Iraq for two years (2005-2007), served as CNN Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon (2007-2010) supervised CNN’s relationship with Middle East nations (from 2007-2010), covered the wars in Lebanon (2006), Georgia (2008) and Pakistan (2008), Bangladesh (in the aftermath of that country’s devastating 2007 cyclone) and in conflict zones across Europe and Asia. He was the first reporter in more than 3 years to interview the President of Syria in English from the Presidential Palace in Damascus. During his time as CNN’s Baghdad Bureau Chief, Perry was responsible for managing a diverse international staff and for overseeing all of CNN’s in-country reporting, editing and producing operations, including overseeing a large in-country staff, and establishing the network’s vitally important in-country security protocols. In 2006, Perry received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for his reporting on the Israel-Lebanon War. Perry has also garnered several Emmys and he was the recipient of the CINE Award as the creator, director and producer of the film “Combat Hospital.” Perry is a graduate of Skidmore College.