1. Paula Schmitt
Brazilian journalist, Middle East correspondent, TV reporter, author,
translator, researcher
paulaschmitt@gmail.com
1 – Web links to some works
Latest international TV stand-up and editing work here,
demonstrations in Spain:
http://rt.com/news/protest-austerity-cuts-spain-653/
Hassan Nasrallah in his only exclusive interview for a Latin
American journalist (remaining pages behind paywall)
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/mundo/ult94u58882.shtml
Recent book:
Iran – Ally or Enemy. Lightning Guides
http://www.amazon.com/Iran-Persian-Nuclear-Partner-
Lightning/dp/194241160X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Interview with Fernando Gabeira, one of the kidnappers of US
Ambassador Charles Elbrick
http://www.brasilwire.com/fernando-gabeira/
Interview with Leila Khaled, hijacker.
http://972mag.com/interview-with-leila-khaled-bds-is-effective-but-
it-doesnt-liberate-land/91000/
Rolling Stone piece on Lebanon, Portuguese
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6cttf9MGnQGVFREOURsaFRkd
VU/view?ths=true
Rolling Stone piece on CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6cttf9MGnQGSzNjanBkVDNCM
3M/view?ths=true
Vogue piece on Hezbollah, profile page
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6cttf9MGnQGV3p2RjgyS0pVenc
/view?ths=true

2. Summary
Political analyst, investigative reporter, international correspondent,
researcher; news producer; news editor; author of a best-selling
book on Lebanese and Middle Eastern politics and the novel
Eudemonia.
http://www.amazon.com/Eudemonia-ebook/dp/B006E5JI0S
Languages:
Portuguese (mother tongue)
English (proficient, second language and the language in which she
authored four books)
Arabic, colloquial (passable, useful for haggling and extricating
from Hezbollah detention)
Spanish (very good; reading, speaking)
French (reading, speaking, enough to conduct an interview)
Italian (reading and speaking, enough to conduct an interview)
Fields: Middle East politics (with a Master’s in Middle East Studies
and Arabic from AUB, American University of Beirut), Brazilian
and Latin American affairs, US politics, political analysis, quantum
physics (occasionally), features. First student to write op-ed articles
for O Estado de S.Paulo (one of the 20 most respected newspapers
in the world, according to Columbia University)
Only Latin American journalist to interview with exclusivity
Hezbollah’s secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, and one of the ten
best international TV correspondents in Brazil according to Prêmio
Imprensa 2006, a news award voted by peers; winner of the
country-wide Premio Nacional Radio Bandeirantes with best radio
news feature on crack consumption inside penitentiaries.
Employment history:
Writer for Callisto Publisher, San Francisco, of a non-fiction book
on Iranian politics and another on espionage.
Translator of English books, among them the classic Before Their
Diaspora, by Walid Khalidi
News producer, writer and director for Ruptly, Berlin. From
January to February 2013
Radio France Internationale correspondent in Beirut and Italy,
from July 2006 to 2011;
Articles published in Rolling Stone magazine, Middle East
Trends, Vogue, Executive Magazine, +972Mag; photos published
in several news outlets, including the Financial Times and Rolling
Stone; videos broadcast worldwide through RT news agency;

3. Middle East TV correspondent for SBT, the second-largest TV
network in Brazil, from 2005 until the Middle East desk was closed
in 2008;
Middle East radio correspondent for Radio France Internationale
in Lebanon (from 2006 to 2009) and then RFI’s correspondent in
Rome (2009 to 2011);
Middle East TV correspondent for TV Gazeta, from December
2004 to July 2005;
Researcher and Project Coordinator for documentary series
“Walking the Edge”, National Geographic;
Writer on Lebanese and Middle Eastern economy and politics for
Executive Magazine, from January 2002 to October 2003;
Stringer in Beirut and Cairo for Folha de S.Paulo, the best-selling
newspaper in Latin America, from 1999 until July 2003;
Executive Director and Chief Editor of Pharaohs Magazine,
business and politics monthly magazine published in Egypt; Senior
Editor and Content Developer of Middle Eastern website bayt.com,
based in Dubai with offices in Cairo, New York and Jeddah; Author
of the weekly column Brazil This Week, published on the internet
by O Estado de S.Paulo, the oldest national newspaper in Brazil
and, according to Columbia University, one of the 20 best dailies in
the world; Special Reporter for Jornal da Tarde – Sao Paulo 1998,
and author of what was said to be the year’s biggest political scoop
(the scoop became a topic covered in every national newspaper and
was as popular as to feature in two comedy programs); International
radio reporter and editor of the entertainment news for Radio
Bandeirantes, the largest news radio in Brazil; Author of the
weekly column “Elections on Line” for Folha de S.Paulo; Director
and producer of the first political debate on the internet with the
major candidates for Sao Paulo’s mayoralty for Folha de S.Paulo;
Reporter for Dinheiro Vivo, then the most subscribed-to news
agency on finance, investment and legislation; Special Investigative
Reporters in the political campaign of candidate Mario Covas,
subsequently elected as Sao Paulo’s governor; First student in the
history of the oldest Brazilian national newspaper, O Estado de
S.Paulo, to ever write on its op page.
Education:
Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic, American
University of Beirut, Lebanon;
BA in Journalism from Casper Libero, the first University of
Journalism founded in Brazil (in Brazil, a BA in Journalism was
until recently compulsory for journalists);
Other courses on History of Art, Politics, Economics, Philosophy,
Law, New Journalism, Arabic, Photography. Etc.

4. Professional highlights:
Author of Advertised to Death – Lebanese Poster Boys, a book on
Lebanese politics, religion and philosophy, for over eight
consecutive months on the best-selling list of Virgin Megastore
Beirut;
Author of the only exclusive interview conceded by Hezbollah’s
Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to a Latin American
newspaper;
Author of what is deemed by some journalists “the biggest scoop in
the 1998’s elections in Sao Paulo”, a 12-day investigation which
took ex-governor Paulo Maluf to the police precinct and thus helped
ruin his campaign for the 1998 elections (further information upon
request);
While still a student, author of the first exclusive interview for a
Brazilian newspaper with writer Salman Rushdie.
In 1998, one of 25 Latin American journalists chosen to work in
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Taller de Nuevo Periodismo” in Buenos
Aires;
In 1997, winner of the Radio Bandeirantes National Award for her
report on drug-trafficking and corruption inside penitentiaries,
including exclusive access to areas forbidden to journalists like the
so-called “seguro” cells, where prisoners have no sunlight for up to
eight months (despite legislation limiting incarceration in those cells
to 20 days).
Other skills
Professional photographer. Proficient knowledge of most
professional Sony movie cameras. Excellent research capabilities
and able to beat almost anyone at searching the web for accurate,
well-sourced, verified information (FAS.org over DebkaFile; Jstor
over American Scientist; peer-reviewed journals over Wikipedia).
Also a not-so-good chess player, and a brown-belt karate fighter
(shotokan), as well as a certified open-water diver. Volunteering
work since the age of 10, mostly for the homeless and the handicap.