Shibley Telhami

Born to an Arab family in Israel, Shibley Telhami is one of the leading experts on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Earning his doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, he is currently the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a nonresident senior fellow for the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. Throughout his career, Telhami has written extensively on the way the news media shapes public opinion in the Middle East, including articles in the Washington Post and The New York Times and several books, including The Stakes: America and the Middle East, which Foreign Affairs named one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003. Updated 2013