Education
University of Virginia.
University of Virginia.
Mackey earned an Master of Arts in International Affairs from the University of Virginia and taught political science at Georgia State University. She served as a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Her writings appeared in such periodicals as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor.
In addition to appearing on National Public Radio, Nightline, American Broadcasting Company News with Peter Jennings and the British Broadcasting Corporation, she served as a commentator on the first Gulf War for Cable News Network. Her book Lebanon: of a Nation was named to the New York Times list of Notable Books of 1989.
Mackey died on April 19, 2015, aged 77. Lebanon: of a Nation, West.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1989. Passion and Politics: The Turbulent World of the Arabs, Penguin Group, New York, 1992;
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, West. West. Norton, New York, 2003;
Lebanon: a House Divided, West. West. Norton, New York, 2006;
Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict, West. West. Norton, New York, 2008.