Emanuele Ottolenghi, a political scientist, is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. Previously, he ran the Brussels' based Transatlantic Institute

Transatlantic Institute

The Transatlantic Institute is a think tank affiliated with the American Jewish Committee. Founded in February 2004 in Brussels, Antwerp, the institute is non-partisan think tank dedicated to addressing the issue of how the United States and Europe can effectively collaborate. Its executive...

. He has taught at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

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, as well as the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He earned a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bologna

University of Bologna

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Ottolenghi has written about Middle East issues for Commentary

Commentary (magazine)

Commentary is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, a liberal at the time who moved sharply to the right in the 1970s and 1980s becoming a strong voice for the...

, The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror

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, The Guardian

The Guardian

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, National Review

National Review

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Online, Newsday

Newsday

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, the Jewish Chronicle, and the Middle East Quarterly

Middle East Quarterly

Middle East Quarterly is a peer reviewed quarterly journal, a publication of the American conservative think tank Middle East Forum founded by Daniel Pipes in 1994. It is devoted to subjects relating to the Middle East and Islam and analyzes the region "explicitly from the viewpoint of American...

, as well as European publications: Il Corriere del Ticino, il Foglio

Il Foglio

Il Foglio is a Italian centre-right daily newspaper, with circulation of about 13,000 copies per day. It was founded in 1996 by the Italian journalist and politician Giuliano Ferrara, after he left as editor of the magazine Panorama- Characteristics :...

, Libero

Libero

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, Il Riformista

Il Riformista

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, Liberal, Standpoint

Standpoint (magazine)

Standpoint is a monthly British cultural and political magazine. Its premier issue was published at the end of May 2008 – the first launch of a major current affairs publication in the UK in more than a decade....

, L'Unità

L'Unità

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, and Die Welt

Die Welt

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He has expertise on antisemitism, Iran

Iran

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, Israel

Israel

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, Italy

Italy

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, and terrorism

Terrorism

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He is the author of three books:

• Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb (London, Profile Books: 2009).

• La Bomba Iraniana (Turin, Lindau: 2008).

• Autodafe': L'Europa, gli ebrei e l'antisemitismo (Turin, Lindau: 2007).