Richard Engel, an American journalist, and novelist born on September 16, 1973, serves as the head foreign correspondent for NBC News. On April 18, 2008, he was given that responsibility after working as the network's Middle East correspondent and bureau chief in Beirut. Engel covered the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War for ABC News while working as a freelance journalist in Baghdad before to joining NBC in May 2003.
Engel is renowned for having covered the Arab Spring, the Syrian Civil War, and the Iraq War. He is fluent in Italian and Spanish and speaks and reads Arabic. Engel's article “War Zone Diary” earned him the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism. A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, written by Engel, was released in 2004.
Richard Engel Children: Meet Son Henry Thomas Engel
Henry Thomas Engel is a six-year-old boy who battled with Rett syndrome at that tender age. Despite the fact that the ailment frequently claimed the lives of male babies within a year or two of birth, Thomas survived for six years.
