Piotr Smolar is a French journalist of Polish origin. He served from 1997 to 1999 as coordinator of the Franco-Russian Centre for Journalism at the Moscow School of Journalism, then from 1999 to 2001 as a correspondent in Russia for the French daily Le Figaro and the magazine Marianne. He is currently Le Monde’s correspondent in Washington, DC. Bad Jew is his first book to appear in English.