By Christopher Cox
from Currents Spring 2015
Dr. Shibley Telhami (MA, 1978) is the Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. A respected scholar, Dr. Telhami has also served as advisor to the US Mission to the UN (1990-91), as advisor to former Congressman Lee Hamilton, and more recently as senior advisor to George Mitchell, President Obama’s United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009-2011...