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]

Life

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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] While discussing the 2006 Lebanon War, Noam Chomsky cited her as "the leading Lebanese academic scholar of Hezbollah".[4] In 2009, she declined an invitation to speak at the NATO Defense College, because this would have involved talking to Israeli military officers, which is against Lebanese law.[5][6]

Her articles have appeared in openDemocracy,[7] Foreign Affairs,[8] The Washington Post,[9] and Lebanon's Al Akhbar.[10]

Her father, Abdo Saad, is a Shiite pollster;[11] her mother is Christian.

Publications

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  • Hezbollah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press. 2001, ISBN 978-0-7453-1793-9
  • The Iran Connection: Understanding the Alliance with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2011

References

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  1. ^ "Hezbollah's Apocalypse Now". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24.
  2. ^ "Amal Saad-Ghorayeb | Authors | Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. 2009-12-04. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  3. ^ "Amal Saad-Ghorayeb - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace". Carnegieendowment.org. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  4. ^ "Apocalypse Near, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Merav Yudilovitch". chomsky.info. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  5. ^ Lutz, Meris (September 29, 2009). "LEBANON: Scholar angry at NATO after invitation to speak". Los Angeles Times. Beirut. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  6. ^ [1] Archived February 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "The Hizbollah project: last war, next war". openDemocracy. 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  8. ^ Saad, Amal. "Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  9. ^ Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal (2006-07-23). "Hezbollah's Apocalypse Now". ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  10. ^ Al Akhbar, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
  11. ^ "Is Amal Saad-Ghorayeb disseminating Misinformation? - Syria Comment". Joshualandis.com. 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
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