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Release: March 16, 1995
Contact: Toby Hempel (609/258-2750)


Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter
to Speak on Arab-Israeli Peace

Princeton, N.J.--Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman, foreign
affairs columnist for the _New York Times_, will discuss ``The
Making and Un-making of the Arab-Israeli Peace,'' at Princeton
University on Sunday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. in 50 McCosh Hall.
His address is the first in an annual series of Wolfensohn
Lectures in honor of William G. Bowen, past president of Princeton
University.

Friedman joined the _New York Times_ in 1981 as a general
assignment financial reporter specializing in OPEC and oil-related
news. He was named Beirut bureau chief in 1982, six weeks before
the Israeli invasion. He became Israel bureau chief in 1984, a
post he held until 1988, when he received a Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship to write a book about his reflections on the Middle
East. In 1989 he published the best-selling _From Beirut to
Jerusalem_, which won the 1989 National Book Award for non-fiction
and the Overseas Press Club Award for the Best Book on Foreign
Policy. It is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in
many high schools and universities. Friedman's coverage of the
Middle East earned him the Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting in 1983 and again in 1988.

Friedman became the _Times'_ chief diplomatic correspondent in
1989 and spent the next four years traveling, logging more than
500,000 miles covering Secretary of State James A. Baker and the
end of the Cold War. In 1992 he shifted to domestic politics and
was appointed chief White House correspondent, covering the
transition and first year of the Clinton administration.

In 1994 he changed his focus yet again, this time to economics,
and became the Times' international economics correspondent,
covering the nexus between foreign policy and trade policy. He
was named to his present position as foreign affairs columnist in
January of 1995.

In addition to being the first Wolfensohn lecture, Friedman's talk
is also the keynote address of the Center for Jewish Life's
celebration of Jewish Heritage Week (Friday, March 31 through
Saturday, April 8.). His talk is being co-sponsored by the
University's Center for Jewish Life and the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs.

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