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Thomas L. Friedman became the paper’s international affairs Op-Ed columnist in 1995. He joined up with the paper in 1981, thereafter he served while the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, and then in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989, and soon after the White home correspondent and economic correspondent.

Mr. Friedman was granted the 1983 Pulitzer reward for worldwide reporting (from Lebanon) therefore the 1988 Pulitzer reward for international reporting (from Israel). He in addition won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Mr. Friedman could be the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem, ” which won the National Book Award in 1989. He's got written many publications, including “Hot, Flat and Crowded, ” an international most useful vendor.

Produced in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman obtained a B.A. degree in Mediterranean scientific studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he obtained a master’s in contemporary Middle East studies from Oxford. Their column seems every Sunday and Wednesday.