Please note: The information in this bio may not be current. Mort Rosenblum is founding editor of the quarterly, Dispatches. From 1967 to 2004, Rosenblum was Associated Press bureau chief and special correspondent in Africa, Southeast Asia, Argentina and France, reporting from 200 countries. From 1979-1981, he was editor of the International Herald Tribune. Based in Paris and Provence, he returns each winter to the University of Arizona in Tucson to teach global reporting. The latest of his 12 books is "Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival."  Others include "Who Stole the News?," "Coups and Earthquakes," "Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light" and the best-selling "Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit." He can be reached through  www.mortrosenblum.net.