Lawrence Pintak

Lawrence Pintak is a journalist and scholar who has reported from four continents. A former CBS News Middle East correspondent, Pintak covered the birth of modern suicide bombing and the rise of anti-American terrorism in Beirut, the Iran-Iraq War, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and a variety of other stories across the Middle East. His career extends from the Carter White House to the Indonesian revolution, Armenia to Zimbabwe. He has won two Overseas Press Club awards, was twice nominated...See more

Lawrence Pintak is a journalist and scholar who has reported from four continents. A former CBS News Middle East correspondent, Pintak covered the birth of modern suicide bombing and the rise of anti-American terrorism in Beirut, the Iran-Iraq War, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and a variety of other stories across the Middle East. His career extends from the Carter White House to the Indonesian revolution, Armenia to Zimbabwe. He has won two Overseas Press Club awards, was twice nominated for international Emmys and was named a Fellow of the Society by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) in 2017 for his extraordinary contribution to the profession of journalism.Pintak was the founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, dean of the Graduate School of Media and Communications at the Aga Khan University in East Africa, one of the founders of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism in Karachi, and director of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism at The American University in Cairo. He has also been a non-resident senior scholar at the Middle East Institute and non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Pintak's 2019 book, America & Islam, was a finalist for the Religion News Association annual book award. He is a frequent contributor to publications such ForeignPolicy.com, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Vox.com, Axios.com, and other media outlets. Pintak holds a PhD in Islamic Studies (Univ. of Wales, Trinity Saint David). Twitter @Lpintak. Website: Pintak.com. See less