Rasheed Abou-Alsamh is a Saudi-American blogger and journalist based in Brasilia, Brazil. From December 2007 to December 2008 he was the Deputy Comment editor at The National. Previously, he was a senior editor at Arab News in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He used to write a regular column, Manila Moods, for both Arab News and Inquirer.net.
He was a correspondent for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Times, Al-Ahram Weekly and Forbes Arabia.
Rasheed grew up in the US, Switzerland and Brazil, and loves most things Filipino. He has a BA in Political
Science from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. This is Rasheed's World.