Robert Lebling
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Email: lebling@yahoo.com
Home page: http://www,geocities.com/eyeclaudius.geo
Yahoo: lebling
Journalist, public relations specialist, editor, Web team leader.
Six years as a reporter/correspondent/bureau chief in Cairo, Beirut, London, Jiddah, Washington, DC. Covered three wars (1973 Middle East War, Lebanese Civil War, Falklands/Malvinas conflict).
Four years as a bureau chief/editor covering the U.S. natural gas industry.
Four years as number-two editor of Aramco World magazine in Houston (an award-winning four-color cultural magazine published by the Aramco oil company).
Twelve years in public relations/corporate communications for Aramco in Dhahran.
Currently supervisor of a major corporate Web site.
Experience in radio, television, documentary film, daily newspapers, wire services, newsletters, news magazines, book editing.
Writing projects:
Book just completed (seeking agent): THE JINN FILES: ANCIENT AND MODERN LORE ABOUT EARTH'S OTHER INTELLIGENT SPECIES. 125,000 words.
Translated into English CLARIVIGILIA PRIMAVERAL (CLEARVIGIL IN SPRING), a book-length Spanish-language poetic narrative about Mayan myths by Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias (excerpts published in ELECTRONIC POETRY REVIEW (http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue3/text/poems/rlintro.html).
"Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Herbs" (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4040/HERBALME.htm).
"Dos Passos in the Desert," ARAMCO WORLD magazine, July/August 1997 (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4040/dospassos.htm).
"The Pirates of St. Tropez," MEDIEVAL LIFE magazine, Autumn 2000 (http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/4040/pirates.htm)
“Black Bird: Arbiter of Style,” RENAISSANCE MAGAZINE, Summer 2002.
Interests: energy, Middle East, history, archaeology, science, paranormal, anthropology, fiction, films
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |