Lawrence Pintak, Director

Lawrence Pintak is director of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo. A veteran of 30 years in journalism on four continents, Pintak has contributed to many of the world’s leading news organizations. He previously served as Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan, lecturing on the intersection of communications and international policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and in the Communications, Middle East and Southeast Asia studies programs.

Pintak covered the birth of suicide bombing as CBS News Middle East correspondent in the 1980s and more recently reported on the overthrow of Indonesian President Suharto for The San Francisco Chronicle and ABC News. He won two Overseas Press Club awards for his Middle East coverage and was twice nominated for Emmys. Pintak has also advised numerous governments, corporations and NGOs on international media issues. He holds an MPhil in Islamic Studies from the University of Wales/Lampeter.

His books include Beirut Outtakes: A TV Correspondent’s Portrait of America’s Encounter with Terror (Lexington 1988), Seeds of Hate: How America’s flawed Middle East policy ignited the jihad (Pluto 2003), and Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas, which will be published in January 2006 (Pluto Books UK/Univ of Michigan Press).

He may be reached at lpintak@aucegypt.edu.
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