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American journalist

For the fictional photojournalist, see Civil War (film).

Lee Harold Smith (born April 10, ) is an American journalist and author.

He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was raised in New York City.^[1] He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and was a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. Smith was formerly editor-in-chief of The Village Voice Literary Supplement, a national monthly literary review.

He has written for publications including The New York Times, The Hudson Review, Ecco Press, Atheneum, Grand Street, GQ, and Talk.

At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Smith was working as an editor at The Village Voice and a contributor to Artforum.^[2] By his own account in his book, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations., Smith was dissatisfied with the Orientalist explanations of the Muslim world as presented by Edward Said, whom he had met and spoken w