Christopher Dickey, born August 31, 1951, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek magazine. The author of six books, his most recent is Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD, published in February 2009. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions

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 optioned the book in the fall of 2009 to develop into a television series.

Before taking up his current assignment in Paris, Dickey worked for The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Dickey's Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears on Newsweek.com.

Dickey's other books include With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua ; Expats: Travels in Arabia 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), about his relationship with his father, poet and novelist James Dickey

James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.-Early years:...

.

Dickey has also written for Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...

, Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine)

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, The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, Wired, Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...

, The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review

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, and The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, among other publications. He is a frequent commentator on CNN

CNN

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, MSNBC

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 and National Public Radio, as well as other television and radio networks.

Dickey 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.

External links

• Christopher Dickey official site with information about his books, article archives, links to interviews and information about speaking engagements.
• The Shadowland Journal
• Newsweek Magazine
• Christopher Dickey
• Christopher Dickey on Terrorism, and Moving Beyond a Famous Father Interview with BU Today, Sept 30 2009
• Christopher Dickey - No, Saddam is Worse, Newsweek, January 13, 2003