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Libya and Unrest in the Middle East
The University of Maryland has a number of faculty experts who can talk about continuing unrest in Libya and Egypt and US Policy- especially in light of news that the US Ambassador was killed in Benghazi late Tuesday evening (September 11).
Faculty are listed alphabetically. Feel free to contact our experts directly.
Number of experts found: 13
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I.M. "Mac" Destler
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Professor
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
International security and U.S. foreign policy; homeland security agency reorganization; National Security Council; International trade.
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Home phone
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Cell phone
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 6357
202-328-9000
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703 759 0588
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703.408.3447
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mdestler@umd.edu
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Michele J. Gelfand
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Prof, Affiliate Prof
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Psychology
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Expertise Key Words:
cultural influences on conflict, negotiation, justice, and revenge; workplace diversity and discrimination; and theory and methods in cross-cultural psychology
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301 405 6972
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mgelfand@umd.edu
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Jeffrey C. Herf
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Professor
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History
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Expertise Key Words:
Modern European and German intellectual, political and international history; memory and politics in Europe after 1945; Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism during World War II and the Holocaust; old and new elements in contemporary terrorism; facing difficult pasts in comparative perspective.
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301 405 7667
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jherf@umd.edu
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Donald F. Kettl
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Dean
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.
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301 405 6971
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kettl@umd.edu
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Sahar M. Khamis
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Assistant Prof. of Communication/Affiliate Prof. of Women's Studies
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Communication
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Expertise Key Words:
-Arab and Muslim media
-New media and social change in the Arab/Muslim world
-Public awareness campaigns in the Middle East
-Images and representations of gender in Arab media
-Mass media and gendered identities
-Mass media and national development
-Health communication
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301 405 0864
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skhamis@umd.edu
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Steven Kull
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Director
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Program on International Policy Attitudes
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Expertise Key Words:
U.S. and international public opinion; conducts international polling; leader in compiling and analyzing global public opinion data; expert in foreign policy issues
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202 232 7500
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skull@umd.edu
skull@pipa.org
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Gary D. LaFree
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Dir. and Prof.
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START (Natl. Consortium Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism)
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Expertise Key Words:
Trends in terrorism; terror statistics; using behavioral science to combat terror; national and international crime trends; directs National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security-sponsored center of excellence based at Maryland); Webcam.
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301 405 6655
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301 518 2491
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glafree@msn.com
glafree@umd.edu
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Aaron W. Mannes
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Researcher
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Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
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Expertise Key Words:
Terrorism, Middle East politics, Homeland Security, North Korea and its designation as a terror sponsoring nation
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2404723839
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amannes@umd.edu
aaron.mannes@gmail.com
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Susan Moeller
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Professor
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Philip Merrill College of Journalism and School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Media coverage of international affairs; media coverage of war, violence, conflict and disasters; media coverage of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD); how photographic images shape attitudes toward war; compassion fatigue; human/civil rights and the media.
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301 405 2419
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301 565 9510
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240 472 4166
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smoeller@jmail.umd.edu
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Yoram Peri
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Director of The Gildenhorn Institute & Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies
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Meyerhoff Program & Center for Jewish Studies
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Expertise Key Words:
Israel, Middle East; Foreign and International Relations, Economics - the Economy and Trade. Communications; Military Relations
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301 405 9413
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yperi@umd.edu
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Paul L. Scham
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Visit Asst Prof, Executive Director of Gildenhorn Inst. for Israel Studies
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Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
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Expertise Key Words:
Middle East Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Middle East peace process, Hamas-Israel relations,
Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, Israeli history, Israeli politics and society,
History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Expertise Credentials:
Senior editor of "Shared Histories" (2005), a book examining Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives. 2d volume to appear this year.
Author of articles on Israeli/Palestinian historical narratives, Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, the Mideast peace process, "Coping with Hamas", Jordanian society and the peace process with Israel, the Annapolis peace process.
Coordinated Israeli-Palestinian joint projects at the Truman Institute of Peace of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1996-2002.
Currently working on 1)issues of Hamas's ideology and how it might coexist with Israel; 2) Lessons of former Israeli-Arab peace processes for the incoming administration; 3) Book Chapter on the importance of historical narratives in the conflict
Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. 2003-present
Numerous media appearances discussing and explaining the contact, including CNN, BBC, CBC, Fox News, Minnesota Public Radio, CTV,
Author of many op-eds on various aspects of the conflict
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Web Site(s):
 Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies Home Page
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301 405 9412
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202-363-6094
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202-701-3500
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pscham@umd.edu
paulscham@gmail.com
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Address:
0142 Holzapfel Hall
College Park, MD 20742
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Degrees:
J.D., Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
B.A., History, Columbia University
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Publication(s):
"Normalization and Anti-Normaliztion in Jordan: The Public Debate"
" MEI Policy Brief, Annapolis, Nov. 2007: Hopes & Doubts
" Strange Bedfellows: The Israeli-Hamas Tahdiya
Historical Narratives and Peacemaking
Israel's Neo-Revisionism & American Neoconservatism: The Unexplored Parallels
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Shibley Telhami
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Professor, Sadat Chair
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Middle East foreign policy; Middle East politics; Arab-Israeli dispute; impact of Middle East media; psychology of peace
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301 405 6734
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stelhami@gvpt.umd.edu
sadat@gvpt.umd.edu
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Madeline C. Zilfi
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Affiliated Associate Professor, Associate Professor
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History
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Expertise Key Words:
The history of Islam and the Middle East; 20th century Middle East history; gender issues - women and society in the Middle East. Lebanon.
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Contact Information:
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301 405 8403
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mzilfi@umd.edu
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