Background
Doug Saunders is the Globe and Mail's international-affairs columnist, and also serves as the paper's online opinion and debate editor. He has been a writer with the Globe since 1995, and has extensive experience as a foreign correspondent. From 2003 until 2012, he was the paper's London-based European bureau chief. He has won the National Newspaper Award, the Canadian counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions, and awards honouring him as Canada’s best columnist in 2006 and 2013. His first book, Arrival City (2010) chronicled the unprecedented wave of rural-to-urban migration and the rise of urban immigrant enclaves, using firsthand reporting on five continents. It has been published in eight languages and has won numerous honours, including the Donner Prize for best book on politics and a runner-up for the Gelber Prize for the world's best international-affairs book. His second, The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012), examined the effects of immigration from Islamic countries to the West and has been published to acclaim in Canada, the United States and Germany.
