CNS Staff List

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Updated: Dec 14, 2012

Bilal Y. Saab

Non-resident Scholar, Washington, DC office

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Activities

Areas of Research

  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • US Middle East policy
  • Nuclear and conventional deterrence
  • Counterterrorism
  • Arms control and nonproliferation in the Middle East
  • Islamist movements
  • Arab reform and good governance
  • Middle East security and terrorism

Background

Mr. Saab joined CNS after serving four years as Research Analyst at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, he was the Chief Officer and Editor of the Middle East desk at the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was a British Council scholar. Before that, he held several research positions at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) in Beirut and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington, DC. He is fluent in spoken and written Arabic and French.

In his capacity as specialist in Middle East security and terrorism, Saab has briefed numerous diplomatic, defense, and intelligence agencies in the United States government. In addition, he has lectured at various universities in the United States and spoken at a number of high-level terrorism and security conferences in Europe.

He has provided expert commentary to CNN, BBC, NPR's All Things Considered, NPR's Marc Steiner Show, Channel News Asia, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, France 24, Associated Press, Agence France Presse, The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post, and others.

Education

  • Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park
  • M.A. from the University of St Andrews in International Security Studies
  • B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration from the American University of Beirut (AUB)

Bibliography

His articles have been published in Middle East Policy, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, The Washington Quarterly, and The World Today. He has written for Brookings, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest, and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post Global, Haaretz, The Daily Star, The Middle East Times, Hurriyet Daily News, Al Hayat, and others.
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