Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
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Amal Abdo Saad-Ghorayeb is a Lebanese writer and political analyst known for her writings on the Israel
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i-Lebanese
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 conflict and Hezbollah.

Life

She works as an assistant professor of political science
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 at the Lebanese American University
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. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England. She was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center (CMEC).

In 2009, she was dis-invited to speak at the NATO Defense College
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.

Her work has appeared in Open Democracy, and Foreign Affairs.

Her father, Abdo Saad, is a prominent Shiite pollster; her mother is Christian.
She resides in Lebanon.

Publications

  • Hezbollah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press. 2001, ISBN 9780745317939
  • The Iran Connection: Understanding the Alliance with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2011

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