Lawrence Pintak

Lawrence Pintak, PhD is an award-winning journalist, academic leader, and media development expert who has reported from four continents and led projects aimed at bolstering journalistic professionalism and independence in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and the Caucasus.

He served as dean of the Graduate School of Media and Communications at The Aga Khan University in East Africa, founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, helped establish Pakistan’s Centre for Excellence in Journalism, and directed the Arab world’s leading media training center in the years leading up to the Arab Spring.

A former CBS News Middle East correspondent, Pintak is the author of five books at the intersection of media, religion, democracy, and international relations, and was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017 for “extraordinary service to the profession of journalism” around the world. His first novel, Target: Hollywood, was published in 2022. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies.

Website:
www.pintak.com

Books:

America & Islam: Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Road to Donald Trump, 2019
Islam for Journalists (co-editor) 2014
The New Arab Journalist, 2011
Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas, 2006
Seeds of Hate: How America’s Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad, 2003
Beirut Outtakes, 1988