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Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran's Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, May 2009). Served as senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Shibley Telhami is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center. He is Anwar Sadat Professor at the University of Maryland and author of The Stakes: America and the Middle East (2002). His many other publications on Middle East politics include Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990). His current research focuses on the media’s role in shaping Middle Eastern political identity and the sources of ideas about U.S. policy in the region.
For more information, please follow this link: Shibley Telhami at Brookings.
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
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