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Thomas W. Lippman

Adjunct Scholar
Middle East Institute
1761 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2882

Phone: (202)363-6796

Email: TWL22(at symbol)columbia.edu

Thomas W. Lippman is a Washington-based author and journalist who has specialized in Middle Eastern affairs and American foreign policy for more than three decades, and is one of the country's most knowledgeable analysts of Saudi Arabian affairs and U.S.- Saudi relations. He is a former Middle East bureau chief of the Washington Post, and also served as that newspaper's oil and energy reporter. Throughout the 1990s, he covered foreign policy and national security for the Post, traveling frequently to Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East. Prior to his work in the Middle East, he covered the Vietnam war as the Washington Post's bureau chief in Saigon.

Lippman is the author of numerous magazine articles, book reviews and op-ed columns about Mideast affairs, and of four books: Understanding Islam (1982, 3d revised edition 2002); Egypt After Nasser (1989); Madeleine Albright and the New American Diplomacy (2000); and his most recent, Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia, which was published to wide critical acclaim in 2004. He is also the author of the essay on Saudi Arabia's defense strategy and nuclear weapons policy published in 2004 by the Brookings Institution Press in The Nuclear Tipping Point, a book on global nuclear proliferation.

A frequent television and radio commentator on Mideast developments, Lippman has appeared in 2004 and 2005 on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, on the "Think Tank" program on PBS, and on radio stations in New York, Boston, Phoenix and San Francisco, as well as on television stations overseas. Several of his lectures on Saudi Arabia have been televised nationally by C-SPAN. In 2005 he was a featured guest on two segments of the PBS program "Think Tank" and also appeared on "The Charlie Rose Show."

In 2002 Lippman was a member of a task force on the future of the Balkans at the Council on Foreign Relations, of which he is a member; in 2004-2005, he was a member of the Council's study group on Saudi-U.S. Relations. In 2003, he was the principal writer about the war in Iraq for Washingtonpost.com. He is currently an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

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