Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

Amal Abdo Saad-Ghorayeb (Arabic: أمل سعد غريب) is a Lebanese writer and political analyst known for her writings on the Israeli–Lebanese conflict and Hezbollah.^[1]

Life

Saad-Ghorayeb was an assistant professor of political science at the Lebanese American University until 2008.^[2] She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England. She was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center (CMEC).^[3] While discussing the 2006 Lebanon War, Noam Chomsky cited her as "the leading Lebanese academic scholar of Hezbollah".^[4] In 2009, she declined an invitation to speak at the NATO Defense College, because this would have involved talking to Israeli military officers, which is against Lebanese law.^[5][6]

Her articles have appeared in openDemocracy,^[7] Foreign Affairs,^[8] The Washington Post,^[9] and Lebanon's Al Akhbar.^[10]

Her father, Abdo Saad, is a Shiite pollster;^[11] her mother is Christian.

Publications

• Hezbollah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press. 2001, ISBN 978-0-7453-1793-9
• The Iran Connection: Understanding the Alliance with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2011