Shibley Telhami

Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, in the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.

"Professor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena. He has served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and as a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, which was mandated by the Wye River Agreements."

Telhami is a member of the Human Rights Watch Middle East Advisory Committee and a non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institute. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council.

"Current Position(s): Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Board Member, Human Rights Watch, Education for Employment Foundation

"Previous Position(s): 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.)." 

He has also served on the board of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, "and several academic advisory boards. He has also served on the board of the United States Institute of Peace and was given the Distinguished International Service Award by the University of Maryland in 2002." 

Has worked with the USIP's Arab-Israeli Peacemaking.


 * Advisory Board (2009), Praeger Security International
 * Advisory Board, Soliya