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Theodore May

Please note: The information in this bio may not be current.Theodore May reports on Egypt for GlobalPost, examining Egypt's role as a regional, political and cultural leader and its economic struggles as a resource poor country with a large population. May worked as a political reporter for the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006, reporting on south Lebanon in the aftermath of the war with Israel. He also covered the country's Palestinian refugee camps. Since returning to Egypt, May has been working as a business reporter for the Daily News Egypt, which publishes with the International Herald Tribune. He has focused his reporting on the massive influx of investment from Persian Gulf countries, food and agricultural issues, and energy prices. May also serves as a freelance assistant producer for ABC News. He has worked on pieces for the web, radio and television, including for "World News with Charles Gibson." A native New Yorker, he graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a degree in history.
Agence France-Presse
The solitary life of Omar Sharif
Politics
Egyptians angry at Israel’s Gaza attacks
Agence France-Presse
Wounded trickle into Egypt border town
Politics
Back to Baghdad
Agence France-Presse
For Which It Stands: Egypt
Politics
Does the path to Gaza peace run through Cairo?
Politics
The ground truth in Gaza
Agence France-Presse
Israel calls unilateral cease-fire in Gaza
Agence France-Presse
A death in Gaza reignites fear
Agence France-Presse
Palestinian merchants count their curses
Politics
Gaza conflict creates another broken generation
Agence France-Presse
Graffiti in Gaza
Agence France-Presse
A crumbling city
Agence France-Presse
A smuggler’s paradise
Agence France-Presse
Face time at the Cairo zoo
Agence France-Presse
In Egypt, talk is of succession
Agence France-Presse
What Clinton brings to Egypt
Business, Finance & Economics
Cairo on $2 a day
Politics
Trash or treasure: Egypt’s poorest decide
Agence France-Presse
What to do with Egypt’s wanderers
Agence France-Presse
Tribe before country
Agence France-Presse
How to save an oasis
Lifestyle
Organ trade endangers Egypt’s poorest
Agence France-Presse
The player
Business, Finance & Economics
The great Suez slowdown
Agence France-Presse
A tale of two lovers
Agence France-Presse
A library with great expectations
Agence France-Presse
From the people who brought you the pyramids…
Agence France-Presse
Egyptians set the stage for Obama address
Politics
Obama speaks before 3,000, addresses a billion
Agence France-Presse
My friend the dictator
Agence France-Presse
One hump or two?
Agence France-Presse
A trip to Cairo’s Friday Market
Agence France-Presse
Egyptians seethe over murder in Germany
Agence France-Presse
From gods to garbage dwellers
Politics
All-star political cast gathers in Egypt
Agence France-Presse
Who owns the Nile?
Agence France-Presse
Egyptian history a foreign concept
Agence France-Presse
Egypt’s long, hot summer just got hotter
Agence France-Presse
Some Muslims find Egypt a colder place
Agence France-Presse
Cairo nominee for Unesco chief stirs controversy
Agence France-Presse
Anti-establishment in Egypt: the return of Ayman Nour
Agence France-Presse
Egypt’s Christians uphold tattoo tradition
Agence France-Presse
Will the real Indiana Jones please stand up?
Agence France-Presse
Fanatical about football, superstars at squash
Agence France-Presse
Yes, swine flu is scary. But reusable ear thermometers?
Politics
For Israeli envoy, dislike goes with the turf
Agence France-Presse
Sports violence as political opportunism
Agence France-Presse
In the footsteps of Alexander the Great
Agence France-Presse
In Alexander’s footsteps: The journey begins
Agence France-Presse
Turkish city embraces all identities
Lifestyle
Classical music, with a Syrian twist
Agence France-Presse
Bringing down the house
Agence France-Presse
How to speak out in Syria
Agence France-Presse
How to tie a keffiyeh … and make history
Agence France-Presse
Making head scarves make history
Agence France-Presse
Hezbollah museum: war for all the family
Agence France-Presse
Hezbollah museum draws Lebanon crowds
Lifestyle
Material Girl in a Kabbalah world
Agence France-Presse
Boycotting Israel