Dr. Mamoun Fandy is an Egypt

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ian-born American

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 scholar who is known for his moderate views. He is president of the think tank Fandy Associates, a senior fellow at the Baker Institute, the United States Institute of Peace

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, and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

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 in London

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. Before that Fandy was a research professor of politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

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 at the School of Foreign Service

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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 of Georgetown University

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, as well as of Arab politics at the National Defense University

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. He is frequently seen on American television, and is a columnist for Al-Ahram

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and the Asharq Al-Awsat.

In his 2007 book (Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World, Fandy called Al Jazeera

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 “the Muslim Brotherhood channel”, noting that it glorified Muslim Brotherhood

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 founder Hassan Al-Bannah in a two-part documentary in 2006.

Books

• 2001 Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent (hardcover ISBN 0312210213; paperback ISBN 0312238827)
• 2004 The Road to Kandahar: On the Trail of bin Laden and Zawaheri
• 2007 (Un)Civil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab World (ISBN 0275993930)
• 2009 Kuwait and a New Concept of International Politics