Shibley Telhami

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Shibley Telhami, a nonresident senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, is a former advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and the Iraq Study Group. He is an expert on U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly on the role of the news media in shaping political identity and public opinion in the region.

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Contact

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202.797.6103 — Foreign Policy Program

Resources

Expertise

  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • ethnic conflict
  • international negotiations
  • media and political identity
  • Palestinian and Israeli politics
  • Persian Gulf politics
  • U.S. policy in the Middle East

Experience

Current Positions

  • Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland
  • Member, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Board Member, Human Rights Watch, Education for Employment Foundation

Past Positions

  • Associate Professor, Cornell University
  • Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
  • Lecturer, Princeton University, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, University of Southern California, University of California at Berkeley
  • Advisor, U.S. Mission to the United Nations
  • Advisor, Congressman Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.)

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986
  • M.A., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1978
  • B.A., Queens College of the City University of New York, 1974

Language Fluency

  • English

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