Thomas W. Lippman is a journalist and author, specializing in the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

 and US

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

-Saudi

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

 relations. Lippman graduated form Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. Lippman spent more than 30 years with the Washington Post as a writer, editor and diplomatic correspondent, also serving as the Middle East bureau

News bureau

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 chief for the Washington Post. Lippman currently serves as an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute

Middle East Institute

The Middle East Institute is a non-partisan think tank and cultural center in Washington, DC. Founded in 1946, MEI is the oldest institution in Washington dedicated exclusively to the study of the Middle East. Its founder, architect and philanthropist George Camp Keiser, assembled a team of...

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Books

• Arabian Knight : Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the rise of American power in the Middle East (2008) Selwa Press
• Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia (2004)
• Madeleine Albright and the New American Diplomacy (2000)
• Egypt After Nasser: Sadat, Peace, and the Mirage of Prosperity (1989)
• Understanding Islam (1995)
• Islam--Politics and Religion in the Muslim World (1982)
• The Washington Post Deskbook on Style, McGraw Hill, (1989)