Paris Bureau Chief / Mideast Editor at Newsweek
Paris Area, France
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- Columnist / Paris Bureau Chief / Mideast Editor at Newsweek
- Past
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- Cairo Bureau Chief at Newsweek
- Cairo Bureau Chief at The Washington Post
- Mexico City / Central American Bureau Chief at The Washington Post
- Metro Reporter at The Washington Post
- Managing Editor, The Washington Post Magazine at The Washington Post
- Columnist and Asst. Editor, Book World at The Washington Post
- Education
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- Boston University
- University of Virginia
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Christopher Dickey’s Summary
Award-winning author Christopher Dickey is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine. Previously he worked for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Chris's Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. For links to recent columns and articles, visit the archive.
Chris's books include With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (Simon & Schuster, 1986); Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990); Innocent Blood: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (Simon & Schuster, 1998). His most recent novel, The Sleeper, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2004. The New York Times called it "a first-rate thriller." The Sleeper is now available directly from Simon and Schuster as an e-book.
He has also written for Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic, among other publications. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, as well as other television and radio networks.
Chris is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was formerly an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow; of the Overseas Press Club of America; and of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris.
Christopher Dickey’s Specialties:
Counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, intelligence-led policing, Al Qaeda, Hizbullah, Islamic and other fundamentalisms, the Middle East, North Africa, France, Spain, Italy, the Vatican.
Christopher Dickey’s Experience
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Columnist / Paris Bureau Chief / Mideast Editor
Newsweek
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; WPO; Publishing industry)
February 2003 — Present (5 years 6 months)
I have worked out of Paris for several years, but began my weekly online column in early 2003, during the leadup to the invasion of Iraq.
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Cairo Bureau Chief
Newsweek
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; WPO; Publishing industry)
1986 — 1989 (3 years)
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Cairo Bureau Chief
The Washington Post
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
1985 — 1986 (1 year)
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Mexico City / Central American Bureau Chief
The Washington Post
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
1980 — 1983 (3 years)
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Metro Reporter
The Washington Post
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
1978 — 1980 (2 years)
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Managing Editor, The Washington Post Magazine
The Washington Post
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
1977 — 1978 (1 year)
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Columnist and Asst. Editor, Book World
The Washington Post
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
1974 — 1977 (3 years)
Christopher Dickey’s Education
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Boston University
MS, Documentary Film, 1972 — 1974
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University of Virginia
1968 — 1972
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Christopher Dickey’s Interests:
Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Counterinsurgency, Espionage, Law Enforcement, France, Italy, Middle East, Internet, Film making, English literature, Islam, Catholic Church, Anglican Church
Christopher Dickey’s Honors:
From Newsweek site:
Among Dickey's journalism honors are an Inter-American Press Association award for his overall coverage of El Salvador and an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on its death squads in the 1980s. In 1998 he was given the Edward Weintal Award for Distinguished Diplomatic Reporting by Georgetown University. Dickey also covers new technologies and his work is included in "The Best American Science Writing 2002." He was part of the team that in 2002 won Newsweek the American Society of Magazine Editors Award for General Excellence and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Magazine Reporting.
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