Newsweek's Paris Bureau Chief, Expert
on Terrorism to Speak at AASU November 17
Savannah,
GA—November 5, 2003—Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief
and Middle East regional editor for Newsweek Magazine, will give a
lecture on "Drinking from a helmet: My father's wars and mine"
at Armstrong Atlantic State University on November 17. The talk will
begin at 7 p.m. in room 156 of University Hall. It is free and open
to the public.
During his talk, Dickey will look at the changing nature of war, its
effects on those who wage it, and on those who stay at home. He will
focus on World War II, the Korean Conflict, Central America conflicts,
and the Middle East, including the current guerrilla conflict in Iraq.
To illustrate some of what can be learned from and about these wars,
he will refer to the poems of his father, James Dickey, some of his
own work, and his current coverage of terrorism and the Middle East.
Dickey previously worked for The Washington Post as Cairo bureau chief
and Central America bureau chief. 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.
Dickey is the author of several books, With the Contras: A Reporter
in the Wilds of Nicaragua (Simon & Schuster, 1986), Expats: Travels
from Tripoli to Tehran (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990), Innocent Book:
A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Summer of Deliverance: A
Memoir of Father and Son (Simon & Schuster, 1998). 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.
Dickey's Shadowland
column, about espionage, counter-terrorism and the Middle East, appears
weekly on Newsweek Online.To view his columns, see the Shadowland
online scrapbook, which is updated every few days at www.christopherdickey.com
