Christopher Dickey will speak at the Nebraska Union September 29 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dickey, the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine, will speak about his most recent book, Securing the City. The book explores the New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit in the aftermath of 9/11.
The lecture, “Now That We’re Safe, What Should We Fear?,” is part of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice’s fall lecture series.
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. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
Dickey previously worked for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Dickey’s Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online.
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's books include With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (Simon & Schuster, 1986); Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990); Innocent Blood: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (Simon & Schuster, 1998), and The Sleeper (Simon & Schuster, 2004). The New York Times called it "a first-rate thriller."