| Nikolas Kozloff | |
| Birth Date: | 26 March 1969 |
| Birth Place: | New York, New York |
| Alma Mater: | Oxford University |
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Nikolas Kozloff is an American academic, author and photojournalist.[1] [2] He currently writes for Al-Jazeera and has also been featured on BBC, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS' Charlie Rose show, The Daily Show and the pro-Bolivarian Revolution website Venezuelanalysis.com.[1] [2]
Kozloff is the single child of Max and Joyce Kozloff. His mother Joyce is an artist and feminist, while his father Max is a photographer, critic and historian. The family is not religious but states that they recognize their Jewish culture.[3]
Kozloff studied in Britain at Oxford University and received a doctorate in Latin American history from the university.[1] [4]
An expert on South American affairs, Kozloff formerly worked for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.[2]
Kozloff's book Hugo Chávez : Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the United States was described as "generally positive in its treatment of" Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution by Marxist magazine Political Affairs.[5] A book review in The New York Times described the book's analysis as "essentially Marxist" filled with "new-lefty rhetoric" that was an "admiring study of Mr. Chávez", and quoted it describing Chávez as a "potentially dangerous enemy to the United States".[4]
Kozloff also founded the Revolutionary Handbook, described as "a project which aims to inform discussion about how to bring about non-violent revolutionary change" that was influenced "by the Occupy Wall Street Movement".[6] He has also written about Ukraine and East-West relations.[1]