Thomas W. Lippman is a journalist and author, specializing in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia–United States relations.^[1]

Lippman attended Regis High School in Manhattan^[2] and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia as a French major in 1961.^[3] Lippman spent more than 30 years with The Washington Post as a writer, editor and diplomatic correspondent,^[4] also serving as the Middle East bureau chief for the Post.^[5] Lippman currently serves as an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute.^[1][6]

• Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers. Georgetown University Press. 2023. ISBN 9781647122973.
• Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia and the CIA. ABC-CLIO. 2019. ISBN 9781440863943.
• Hero of the Crossing: How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World. University of Nebraska Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1612347028.
• Saudi Arabia on the Edge: The Uncertain Future of an American Ally. Potomac Books. 2012. ISBN 978-1597976886.
• Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East. Selwa Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0970115720.
• Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia. Basic Books. 2004. ISBN 0813340527.
• Madeleine Albright and the New American Diplomacy. Basic Books. 2000. ISBN 0813397677.
• Egypt After Nasser: Sadat, Peace, and the Mirage of Prosperity. Paragon House. 1989. ISBN 1557780412.
• Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World. Penguin Putnam. 1995. ISBN 9780452011601.
• Islam: Politics and Religion in the Muslim World. Foreign Policy Association. 1982. ISBN 9780871240750.
• The Washington Post Deskbook on Style. McGraw Hill. 1989. ISBN 9780070683976.

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