Robert Satloff
Encyclopedia
Robert Satloff is an American writer and, since January 1993, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
(WINEP). Satloff's expertise includes "U.S. policy, public diplomacy, Arab and Islamic politics, Arab-Israeli relations, U.S.-Israel relations, peace process, Middle East democratization."Satloff is also a member of the board of editors of the Middle East Quarterly
, a publication of the Middle East Forum
.
Satloff received a Ph.D
from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
. He earned an M.A.
from Harvard University
and B.A.
from Duke University
.
Satloff is described by the New York Review of Books as “a neoconservative with very hawkish views on the Middle East”.
Satloff lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Jennie Litvack, an economist at the World Bank, and three sons, Benjamin, William and David.http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586483999
.
In 2006, he wrote Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, which reported that there were Muslims
and Arabs who rescued potential victims of the Nazi
-directed programs related to the Holocaust
as well as those who collaborated in those programs. During the Second World War, several Arab countries were under Axis
influence or control. Libya
was an Italian
colony (effectively controlled till 1943). Algeria
was then part of France, under the rule of the pro-German Vichy regime
. Morocco
and Tunisia
were French protectorate
s, also under pro-Nazi Vichy France.
From Latvia to European North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), there was no exception in the Nazis policy of racial discrimination and physical extermination of the Jews. The war itself brought German troops to Libya to help the floundering Italian army and from there they occupied Tunisia
and western Egypt
.
In November 9, 1942, following Operation Torch, Nazi Germany occupied French Tunisia. During the six months of their brutal occupation, the Germans continued to implement the Final Solution in Tunisia. S.S. Obersturmbannführer (Colonel) Walter Rauff, a brutal and notorious killer involved in the development of death gas van and the Final Solution in Eastern Europe, was posted as commander of Tunis, and headed an Einsatzkommando (SS task force) to take care of the Jews. Oswald Pohl, charged by Himmler to organize the camps in Eastern Europe joined him. Despite constant attacks by the Allies from the East, the South and the air, Rauff instigated drastic anti-Jewish policies. In French Tunisia, a total of five thousand Jews worked in thirty two forced labor camps near the front line, under horrid conditions. With the Allies a few miles from Tunis, the Germans remained persistent in their war against the Jews of French Tunisia as a priority. On May 8, 1943, the Allies liberated Tunis, and the Jews in the slave labor camps.
Satloff has also provided commentary for major television network news programs, talk shows, and National Public Radio. Satloff is the only non-Arab to host a program on an Arab satellite channel: he is the creator and host of Dakhil Washington (Inside Washington), a weekly news and interview program on al-Hurra, the U.S. government-sponsored Arabic satellite television
channel.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a think tank based in Washington, D.C. focused on United States foreign policy in the Middle East. It was established by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 1985...
(WINEP). Satloff's expertise includes "U.S. policy, public diplomacy, Arab and Islamic politics, Arab-Israeli relations, U.S.-Israel relations, peace process, Middle East democratization."Satloff is also a member of the board of editors of 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...
, a publication of the Middle East Forum
Middle East Forum
The Middle East Forum is an American conservative think tank founded in 1990 by Daniel Pipes, who also serves as its director. MEF became a 5013 non-profit organization in 1994...
.
Satloff received a Ph.D
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. He earned an M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
from Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
.
Satloff is described by the New York Review of Books as “a neoconservative with very hawkish views on the Middle East”.
Satloff lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Jennie Litvack, an economist at the World Bank, and three sons, Benjamin, William and David.http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586483999
Writing career
Satloff authored or edited nine books. His writing has appeared in major newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
.
In 2006, he wrote Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, which reported that there were Muslims
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
and Arabs who rescued potential victims of the Nazi
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
-directed programs related to the Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
as well as those who collaborated in those programs. During the Second World War, several Arab countries were under Axis
Axis Powers
The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...
influence or control. Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
was an Italian
Italian Fascism
Italian Fascism also known as Fascism with a capital "F" refers to the original fascist ideology in Italy. This ideology is associated with the National Fascist Party which under Benito Mussolini ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, the Republican Fascist Party which ruled the Italian...
colony (effectively controlled till 1943). Algeria
French Algeria
French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...
was then part of France, under the rule of the pro-German Vichy regime
Vichy France
Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
. Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
and Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
were French protectorate
Protectorate
In history, the term protectorate has two different meanings. In its earliest inception, which has been adopted by modern international law, it is an autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity...
s, also under pro-Nazi Vichy France.
From Latvia to European North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), there was no exception in the Nazis policy of racial discrimination and physical extermination of the Jews. The war itself brought German troops to Libya to help the floundering Italian army and from there they occupied Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
and western Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
.
In November 9, 1942, following Operation Torch, Nazi Germany occupied French Tunisia. During the six months of their brutal occupation, the Germans continued to implement the Final Solution in Tunisia. S.S. Obersturmbannführer (Colonel) Walter Rauff, a brutal and notorious killer involved in the development of death gas van and the Final Solution in Eastern Europe, was posted as commander of Tunis, and headed an Einsatzkommando (SS task force) to take care of the Jews. Oswald Pohl, charged by Himmler to organize the camps in Eastern Europe joined him. Despite constant attacks by the Allies from the East, the South and the air, Rauff instigated drastic anti-Jewish policies. In French Tunisia, a total of five thousand Jews worked in thirty two forced labor camps near the front line, under horrid conditions. With the Allies a few miles from Tunis, the Germans remained persistent in their war against the Jews of French Tunisia as a priority. On May 8, 1943, the Allies liberated Tunis, and the Jews in the slave labor camps.
Satloff has also provided commentary for major television network news programs, talk shows, and National Public Radio. Satloff is the only non-Arab to host a program on an Arab satellite channel: he is the creator and host of Dakhil Washington (Inside Washington), a weekly news and interview program on al-Hurra, the U.S. government-sponsored Arabic satellite television
Satellite television
Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...
channel.
Publications
- Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (PublicAffairs, 2006). ISBN 1-58648-399-4
- The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror: Essays on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East (The Washington Institute, 2004).
- U.S. Policy toward Islamism (Council on Foreign Relations, 2000)
- From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition (Oxford University Press, 1994)
- Troubles on the East Bank: Challenges to the Domestic Stability of Jordan (Praeger, 1986)
External links
- Righteous Muslims. A briefing by Robert Satloff by Rachel Silverman, Jewish Exponent, December 14, 2006 (Middle East ForumMiddle East ForumThe Middle East Forum is an American conservative think tank founded in 1990 by Daniel Pipes, who also serves as its director. MEF became a 5013 non-profit organization in 1994...
, December 11, 2006) - Robert Satloff talks about Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands (video) November 2006
- Interviews with historian Robert Satloff, Fresh AirFresh AirFresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States. The show is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its longtime host is Terry Gross. , the show was syndicated to 450 stations and claimed 4.5 million listeners. The show...
from WHYY-FMWHYY-FMWHYY-FM is an NPR member station serving the Delaware Valley area, which is the metro area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is located in Philadelphia. Its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.-History:...
, December 14, 2006. - Forgotten chapter by LARRY DERFNER (Jerusalem Post) December 14, 2006
- Arabs Who Saved the Jews by Will Sullivan (US News) December 3, 2006
- Hip, Hip, Al Hurra! Explaining America to the Arabs — with no help from the State Department. by Robert Satloff (Weekly Standard) November 06, 2006, Volume 012, Issue 08
- Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Robert Satloff from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- A 'Righteous' Honor for an Arab Who Saved Jews, NPRNPRNPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
Morning EditionMorning EditionMorning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It airs weekday mornings and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 05:00 to 09:00 ET, with feeds and updates as required until noon...
, April 19, 2007