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 the Brookings Institution. Highlights of Professor Telhami’s foreign policy involvements include having served as Advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), a member of the US delegation to the Trilateral US-Israeli-Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, and on the US Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World for which he co-drafted the Group report, “Changing Minds, Winning Peace.”

Professor Telhami regularly appears on national and international radio and television. He has co-drafted several Council on Foreign Relations reports on US public diplomacy, on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and on Persian Gulf security. His best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003) was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. He is a co-author of Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and US Foreign Policy in an Unjust World (Brookings Institution Press, 2004), and most recently authored Reflections of Hearts and Minds: Media, Opinion and Identity in the Arab World (Brookings Institution Press, 2006).

Syracuse University faculty members Renee DeNevers, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, and Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Associate Professor of Political Science, will offer responses to Professor Telhami's presentation.