Sandro Contenta

Sandro Contenta has been a Star staff reporter since 1981. In 1998, he was appointed its Middle East bureau chief, covered the second Palestinian intifada and reported regularly from Iran, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. In 2002, Contenta was appointed the paper’s London-based, European bureau chief. He has covered wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Lebanon, conflicts in Yemen, and bloodless revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia. In 2011, he reported on revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. A former education beat reporter, Contenta is the author of the book, Rituals of Failure: What Schools Really Teach.