Amal Abdo Saad-Ghorayeb ( ar, أمل سعد غريب) is a Lebanese writer and political analyst known for her writings on the

Israeli–Lebanese conflict The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict,G. Rongxing. ''Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management: The Art of Avoiding War''. p71. was a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Libe ...

and

Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...

Life

Saad-Ghorayeb was an assistant professor of

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at the

Lebanese American University The Lebanese American University (LAU) ( ar, الجامعة اللبنانية الأميركية) is a secular and private American university located in Lebanon. It is chartered by the board of regents of the University of the State of New Y ...

until 2008. She received her Ph.D. from the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, England. She was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center (CMEC). In 2009, she declined the invitation to speak at the

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, because this would have involved talking to Israeli military officers, which is against Lebanese law. Her articles have appeared in

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, ''

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'', ''

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'', and Lebanon's '' Al Akhbar''. While discussing the

2006 Lebanon War The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...

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cited her as "the leading Lebanese academic scholar of Hezbollah". Her father, Abdo Saad, is a prominent Shiite pollster; her mother is Christian. She resides in Lebanon.

Publications

* ''Hezbollah: Politics and Religion''. London: Pluto Press. 2001, * ''The Iran Connection: Understanding the Alliance with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas'', I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2011

References

External links

Her Twitter account

''ASG's counter-hegemony unit''
a blog maintained by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb.
"Will Hizballah intervene in the Gaza conflict?"
''Electronic Intifada'', 11 January 2009
"Hezbollah"
''Alternative Radio'', 19 June 2007
"Hezbollah's Role in Lebanon's Government"
''NPR'', July 13, 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal Lebanese American University faculty Living people Lebanese Shia Muslims Lebanese writers Arab–Israeli conflict Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Birmingham