Cal Perry is an international correspondent in Jerusalem and Cairo for Al Jazeera. Perry has traveled the world and risked his life for his enthusiasm for reporting. He has served as CNN Bureau Chief in Baghdad, Iraq and Beirut, Lebanon, and supervised CNN’s relationship with Middle East nations. He has covered the wars in Lebanon, Georgia, and Pakistan, Bangladesh and in conflict zones across Europe and Asia. Perry began his career at CNN as an international assignment editor on the network’s foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia. He then went on to Iraq to become an embedded producer and he finished as the network’s lead correspondent based in Baghdad. During that time he reported from nearly all of Iraq’s provinces; he covered the U.S. war in Iraq with numerous embeds, which included producing and directing a report on U.S. special operations forces – the first international correspondent to do so. Also, as CNN liaison for the Middle East and CNN’s bureau chief in Lebanon, Perry conducted a series of first-time interviews: with the head of the Hamas political bureau, Khalid Meshaal, Syrian President Basharal- Assad, Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad, and Saad Hariri, in the first interview with him after his election as prime minister in 2008. Perry’s broad experience in the region began in November of 2004, when he organized CNN’s West Bank coverage of the death and funeral of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. 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 “Combat Hospital," which he filmed during his time in Iraq.