A distinguished journalist and author, Christopher Dickey currently serves as Newsweek's Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor. He reports on European politics, economy, society and new technologies, as well as developing stories throughout North Africa, the Near East and the Persian Gulf.

An experienced combat reporter and expert on terrorism, Dickey led investigations of the first World Trade Center plot in 1993, and since Sept. 11, 2001, he has played a key role in Newsweek's coverage of the War on Terror. His career has taken him from the mountain forests of Nicaragua, where he traveled with the Contra rebels in the 1980s, to Libya when it was bombed by the United States in 1986, Iraq when it was attacked with U.S. Cruise missiles in 1993, Pristina and Belgrade during the Kosovo War in 1999, and Israel at the height of the suicide bombings in 2002.

Dickey first visited Iraq in 1985 and played a major role in Newsweek's coverage of the 1991 Gulf War, particularly in explaining the Arab point of view. Since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Dickey has made several visits to Baghdad, helping to explain the development and character of the Iraqi insurgency, as well as hopes that surround the country's fledgling democracy. Since February 2003, his acclaimed weekly Shadowland column has provided both breaking news and historical perspective about counter-insurgency, terrorism, and developments in the Middle East. 

Among the many other stories Dickey has covered, one of the most well known was the death of Princess Diana in Paris in 1997. Dickey was on the scene that night, reporting for Newsweek and also breaking the news to world audiences over CNN and MSNBC.

Commenting on stories as varied as the Diana investigation and the developing situation in Iraq, Dickey has appeared frequently on Larry King Live, and recently served as a guest anchor on International Correspondents, broadcast worldwide by CNNi. Dickey's many other television and radio appearances have included NBC's Today Show and NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio's "Fresh Air,"  BBC television and radio, as well as news programs on MSNBC, Fox News, ABC and NPR, among other outlets.

Dickey joined Newsweek in 1986 as Cairo bureau chief, coming from The Washington Post, where he had served as Cairo bureau chief, Mexico City bureau chief, a metro reporter, managing editor of The Washington Post Magazine and assistant editor and columnist of the paper's Book World section. In addition to his work for the Post, where he began his career in 1974 at the age of 22, Dickey has written for publications as varied as The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Wired, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review and Vanity Fair.

Dickey made his mark as a novelist with the prescient "Innocent Blood" (Simon & Schuster) published in 1997. It's the story of an all-American holy warrior recruited by jihadists in a plot using smallpox virus to terrorize the United States. The sequel "The Sleeper" (Simon & Schuster), published in 2004, tells the story of the same character, now an ex-terrorist, as he wages a deadly personal hunt for the key operators of Al Qaeda in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The New York Times described "The Sleeper" as "a first-rate thriller."
Dickey's widely acclaimed personal history, "Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son" (Simon & Schuster, 1998), tells the story of his dramatic, often angry relationship--and ultimate reconciliation--with his father, poet and novelist James Dickey. "An amazing portrait," wrote Kirkus Reviews, while Booklist called it a "ferocious memoir of sorrow, rage and love." "Summer of Deliverance" was picked as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. His other nonfiction works are "Expats" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990), which The Los Angeles Times called "without question one of the best travel books of this or any other year," and "With the Contras" (Simon & Schuster, 1986), also picked by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. 

Among Dickey's journalism honors are an Inter-American Press Association award for his overall coverage of El Salvador and an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on its death squads in the 1980s. In 1998 he was given the Edward Weintal Award for Distinguished Diplomatic Reporting by Georgetown University.  Dickey also covers new technologies and his work is included in "The Best American Science Writing 2002." He was part of the team that in 2002 won Newsweek the American Society of Magazine Editors Award for General Excellence and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Magazine Reporting.

Dickey is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Masters in documentary film-making from Boston University's School of Public Communications. He is a former press fellow and current member of the Council on Foreign Relations.