Brigitte Gabriel
Middle East expert
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With a passion and vigor hailing directly from profound experience--the opening salvos of Islamic jihad towards the Western world in the Middle East--Brigitte Gabriel offers a poignant account of a remarkable upbringing. A native of South Lebanon, as a pre-teen she survived the first attack of the Lebanese civil war in 1975: a barrage of Muslim rockets that exploded in her house and left her wounded and buried under the rubble. Gabriel and her family then spent the next seven years in subterranean hiding while Lebanon was under Islamic attack.
"I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water."
It was only Israel--the country her Arabic culture dictated was the enemy--that offered help and protection to the Christians in Lebanon. And in 1982 when her mother was wounded, she was sent to Israel for medical treatments. For her mother it was a life-saving experience; for Gabriel it was a life-altering experience.
"I experienced the values of the Israelis who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television."
Fiercely articulate and passionately committed, Gabriel outlines mistakes the West has made in underestimating the single-mindedness with which radical Islamists have pursued their goals for the past 30 years. A political hawk on international policy, she discusses the threat of radical Islam to world peace and national security in her memoir, "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terrorism Warns America" (St. Martin's Press, 2006).
"Once we have the resolve to end radical Islam, we will end it; right now, radical Islam has more resolve....People treat you the way you allow them to treat you."
Gabriel took up residence in Israel in 1984 and while there rose quickly to an anchor position with Middle East Television's "World News"--an evening-news program broadcast in Israel, Lebanon, Syria and beyond. Relocating to the United States in 1989, she created a TV production and advertising company, with a client roster that included ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX News, CNN, Discovery, TLC and the History Channel.
From the war-torn bomb shelters of Lebanon to the boardrooms of America, Gabriel is a startling illustration of the American Dream. An inspiration for women throughout the world, she has balanced the demands of a successful career with the equally challenging duties of motherhood. Her passionate lectures emit a positive and empowering message to act on one's beliefs.
"So many times in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated Communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance."
AT A GLANCE: Born and raised a Christian Arab, Brigitte Gabriel survived the Lebanese Civil War before moving to Israel at age 20. She embarked on a career in journalism and eventually married an American war correspondent, moving to the United States in 1989. In the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, Gabriel founded American Congress for Truth--a non-profit organization dedicated to inform, inspire and motivate Americans to take action against terrorism. She speaks Arabic, French, English and Hebrew, and sits on the Board of Advisors of the Intelligence Summit
Interested in booking Brigitte Gabriel to speak at your next event?
"I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water."
It was only Israel--the country her Arabic culture dictated was the enemy--that offered help and protection to the Christians in Lebanon. And in 1982 when her mother was wounded, she was sent to Israel for medical treatments. For her mother it was a life-saving experience; for Gabriel it was a life-altering experience.
"I experienced the values of the Israelis who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television."
Fiercely articulate and passionately committed, Gabriel outlines mistakes the West has made in underestimating the single-mindedness with which radical Islamists have pursued their goals for the past 30 years. A political hawk on international policy, she discusses the threat of radical Islam to world peace and national security in her memoir, "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terrorism Warns America" (St. Martin's Press, 2006).
"Once we have the resolve to end radical Islam, we will end it; right now, radical Islam has more resolve....People treat you the way you allow them to treat you."
Gabriel took up residence in Israel in 1984 and while there rose quickly to an anchor position with Middle East Television's "World News"--an evening-news program broadcast in Israel, Lebanon, Syria and beyond. Relocating to the United States in 1989, she created a TV production and advertising company, with a client roster that included ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX News, CNN, Discovery, TLC and the History Channel.
From the war-torn bomb shelters of Lebanon to the boardrooms of America, Gabriel is a startling illustration of the American Dream. An inspiration for women throughout the world, she has balanced the demands of a successful career with the equally challenging duties of motherhood. Her passionate lectures emit a positive and empowering message to act on one's beliefs.
"So many times in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated Communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance."
AT A GLANCE: Born and raised a Christian Arab, Brigitte Gabriel survived the Lebanese Civil War before moving to Israel at age 20. She embarked on a career in journalism and eventually married an American war correspondent, moving to the United States in 1989. In the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, Gabriel founded American Congress for Truth--a non-profit organization dedicated to inform, inspire and motivate Americans to take action against terrorism. She speaks Arabic, French, English and Hebrew, and sits on the Board of Advisors of the Intelligence Summit
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