Islam and the Middle East

Shibley Telhami - Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development, University of Maryland
Expertise: Middle East foreign policy and politics; Arab-Israeli dispute; psychology of peace

Credentials: senior fellow, Brookings Institution; served on U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World (appointed by the Department of State at the request of Congress), and co-drafted the report of their findings, "Changing Minds, Winning Peace;" books include, The Stakes: America and the Middle East , Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords , International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict (co-editor) and Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East (co-editor); appointed by President Clinton to the board of the United States Institute of Peace.
Contact: 301-405-6734 (office); sadat@gvpt.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622 (office); 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/bio.asp?id=17

Jerome Segal - senior research scholar and director of the Jerusalem Project, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise - Israeli - Palestinian relations.

Credentials - one of the first American Jews to meet with the leadership of the PLO, and first met with Yasser Arafat in 1987; directed research on Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian attitudes toward Jerusalem to identify options for resolving the city's final status; wrote Creating the Palestinian State: A Strategy for Peace and Negotiating Jerusalem (co-author)
Contact - 301-495-9755 (home); jsegal@umd.edu ; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site - www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/segalm.html

Madeline Zilfi - associate professor of history, University of Maryland
Expertise: history of Islam and Middle East (including 20 th century); gender issues

Credentials: author of The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Post-Classical Age, editor of Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era
Contact: 301-405-4270 (office); mz11@umail.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.history.umd.edu/Bio/zilfi.html

William Taft Stuart - professor of anthropology, University of Maryland
Expertise: origins and effects of fundamentalism, including Islamic movements; comparative religion, especially new religious movements; cults

Credentials: conducted extensive research in the Middle East, Latin America, Central and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and Oceania; written widely on new religions
Contact: 301-405-1435 (office); 301-840-0593 (home); wstuart@anth.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/stuart.htm

Charles Butterworth - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: Islamic culture; medieval Arabic and Islamic political philosophy

Credentials: former president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies; lived and studied in most of the Arabic speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa
Contact: 301-405-4110 (office); cebworth@gvpt.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/butterworth/

Gerald Lampe - deputy director, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Expertise: Middle Eastern cultures; Arabic and its dialects

Credentials: former Director, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad; author of numerous textbooks on Arabic and its dialects; consultant to the Department of State on Arabic language
Contact: 202-637-8881, ext. 22 (office 1); 301-403-1750, ext. 32 (office 2); glampe@nflc.org ; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.nflc.org/

Warren Phillips - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: oil pipeline and international development; Egyptian politics; international conflict management and political economy

Credentials: consultant to various governmental, nongovernmental, and private sector organizations, including work in the Balkans and Central Asia to develop an oil pipeline; consulted for U.S. Departments of State and Defense, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Ford Foundation, and IBM; CEO of Maryland Moscow, which helps governments in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union make the transition to market-based economies; books include The Impact of Oil Prices on the Political and Economic Future of Egypt (forthcoming)
Contact: 301-405-0054 (office); 301-854-6841 (home); warrenphillips@att.net
Web site: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/harrison/faculty.htm#phillips