Lawrence Pintak, an award-winning journalist who has reported on the Middle East since 1980, is the author of America & Islam and five other books at the intersection of terrorism, Islam, and U.S. policy. He was founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University and, previously, director of the Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism at The American University in Cairo. Instagram/X @Lpintak.