Amal Abdo Saad-Ghorayeb ( Arabic: أمل سعد غريب) is a Lebanese writer and political analyst known for her writings on the Israeli–Lebanese conflict and Hezbollah. [1]
Saad-Ghorayeb was an assistant professor of political science at the Lebanese American University until 2008. [2] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England. She was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center (CMEC). [3]
In 2009, she declined the invitation to speak at the NATO Defense College, because this would have involved talking to Israeli military officers, which is against Lebanese law. [4] [5]
Her articles have appeared in openDemocracy, [6] Foreign Affairs, [7] The Washington Post, [8] and Lebanon's Al Akhbar. [9]
While discussing the 2006 Lebanon War, Noam Chomsky cited her as "the leading Lebanese academic scholar of Hezbollah". [10]
Her father, Abdo Saad, is a prominent Shiite pollster; [11] her mother is Christian.
She resides in Lebanon.
Amal Abdo Saad-Ghorayeb ( Arabic: أمل سعد غريب) is a Lebanese writer and political analyst known for her writings on the Israeli–Lebanese conflict and Hezbollah. [1]
Saad-Ghorayeb was an assistant professor of political science at the Lebanese American University until 2008. [2] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England. She was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center (CMEC). [3]
In 2009, she declined the invitation to speak at the NATO Defense College, because this would have involved talking to Israeli military officers, which is against Lebanese law. [4] [5]
Her articles have appeared in openDemocracy, [6] Foreign Affairs, [7] The Washington Post, [8] and Lebanon's Al Akhbar. [9]
While discussing the 2006 Lebanon War, Noam Chomsky cited her as "the leading Lebanese academic scholar of Hezbollah". [10]
Her father, Abdo Saad, is a prominent Shiite pollster; [11] her mother is Christian.
She resides in Lebanon.