Oral history interview with Shibley Telhami , 2013.

Biographical Note

Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park

Scope and Contents

Youth: education system in Haifa, parents' lives impacted by war, reflections on parenting after his mother's death, religion and language in new state of Israel, remembrances on Suez Crisis and 1967 Arab-Israeli War, left Israel for the United States in 1970; attended Queens College; first impressions of New York; studied mathematics, religion and philosophy at University of California Berkeley; 1973 Yom Kippur War reignited interested in politics, war and peace; student of Kenneth N. Waltz; taught at Berkeley, Princeton University, Swarthmore College, University of Southern California, Ohio State University, Cornell University, University of Maryland; selected for Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship where he worked with Congressman Lee H. Hamilton and Thomas R. Pickering of the United Nations; impact of Al-Jazeera on Middle East socialization; development of ten year program to poll six Middle Eastern countries funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York; challenges and methodology of polling in Middle East; results of polling analysis; briefed the White House and State Department; thoughts on how to influence policy makers and change the world; fluid identity of being an Arab-American in the United States

Subjects

• Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Arab American scholars.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Council on Foreign Relations.
• Gavrilis, George, 1972- interviewer.
• International relations specialists.
• Interviews
• Oral histories
• Political scientists--United States--Biography.
• Telhami, Shibley--Interviews.
• United States--Relations--Middle East.
• University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Center for International Development and Conflict Management.
• War of Attrition, Middle East, 1969-1970.
• World politics.

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