Sandra Mackey

Sandra Mackey

Sandra Mackey is an award winning writer on Middle Eastern culture and politics. [ [http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_fall2002/mackey/index.shtml "Sandra Mackey" biography web page, University of California, Santa Barbara web site, retrieved December 11, 2006.] ]

She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia and has taught political science at Georgia State University. She has served as a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Her writings have appeared on numerous periodicals such as Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor.

In addition to appearing on NPR, Nightline, BBC, and ABC News with Peter Jennings, Mackey also served as a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN. Mackey's book "Lebanon: Death of a Nation" was named to the New York Times list of Notable Books of 1989.

Bibliography

Books written by Sandra Mackey include:
* "The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom", W. W. Norton and Co., New York, 1987 ISBN 0395411653.
* "Lebanon: Death of a Nation", W. W. Norton and Co., New York, 1989 ISBN 0393328430.
* "Passion and Politics: The Turbulent World of the Arabs", Penguin Group, New York, 1992 ISBN 0525934995
* "The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation", Penguin Group, New York, 1996 ISBN 0452275636
* "The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein", W. W. Norton, New York, 2003, ISBN 0393324281
* "Lebanon : a House Divided", W. W. Norton, New York, 2006, ISBN 0393328430
* "Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict", W. W. Norton, New York, 2008, ISBN 978-0393062182 (forthcoming March, 2008)

ee also

* Iranistics

Links

* [http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_fall2002/mackey/index.shtml Lecture at University of California Santa Barbara introduction]

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