Telhami, Shibley
United States

Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center at Brookings. Before coming to the University of Maryland, he taught at several universities, including Cornell University, the University of Southern California, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He served as Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the UN (1990-91), advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Trilateral U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee. Most recently, Telhami served on the Iraq Study Group as a member of the Strategic Environment Working Group. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He served on the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, and co-drafted the report of their findings, “Changing Minds, Winning Peace.” He is the author of several articles and books, including Reflections of Hearts and Minds: Media, Opinion and Identity in the Arab World (Brookings Institution Press, 2005), and The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003) which was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch, the Education for Employment Foundation, and Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, and several academic advisory boards. He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Telhami received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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