Middle East Studies Scholars - Robert Malley, Michael Scott Doran, Chris Kutschera, European Iranologist Society (Paperback)

Chapters: Robert Malley, Michael Scott Doran, Chris Kutschera, European Iranologist Society. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Malley (born 1963) is an American lawyer, political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution. He is currently Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group in Washington, D.C., and a former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs (1998-2001). Prior to holding that title, he was Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger (1996-1998) and the Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council (1994-1996). Malley is considered an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has written extensively on this subject. As Special Assistant to President Clinton, he was a member of the U.S. peace team and helped organize the 2000 Camp David Summit. Robert Malley was born in 1963 to Barbara (n e Silverstein) Malley, a New Yorker who worked for the United Nations delegation of the Algerian National Liberation Front, and her husband, Simon Malley (19232006), an Egyptian-born Jewish journalist who grew up in Egypt and worked as a foreign correspondent for Al Goumhourya, a newspaper linked closely to Gamal Abdul Nasser's government. The elder Malley spent time in New York, writing about international affairs, particularly about nationalist, anti-imperial movements in Africa, and made a key contribution by putting the FLN on the world map. In 1969, the elder Malley moved his family including son Robert to France, where he founded the magazine Africasia (later known as Afrique Asia), which gave voice to the causes of the newly-independent states such as Algeria and Egypt, and to liberation struggles throu...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=677581