Steven Simon is a former

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senior director for the Middle East and North Africa. He also previously served as the Executive Director

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-US and Corresponding Director IISS-Middle East and as a Senior Fellow at the

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based in Washington, D.C. He was Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a Spring 2008 Berlin Prize Fellow. Steven Simon is now a visiting professor at

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in Maine.

Education

Simon holds a BA in Classics and Near Eastern Languages from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, an MTS from

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, and an MPA from

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Career

In 1999 Steven Simon moved to Britain, where he worked as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Before he moved to London, Simon was Director for Global Issues and Senior Director for Transnational Threats at the White House. After Simon left the IISS he specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation, before he became a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). He was an International Affairs Fellow at

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and a University Fellow at Brown University.

Works

"The Price of the Surge"
''Foreign Affairs'', May/June 2008
"Can the Right War Be Won?"
''Foreign Affairs'', July/August 2009 *
"America's Great Satan"
''Foreign Affairs'', November/December 2019 (with Daniel Benjamin) ;Books *

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, Steven Simon, ''The Age of Sacred Terror. Radical Islam's War Against America'', Random House, New York 2002, * *

References

External links

*http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/steven-simon *http://www.npr.org/books/authors/138377308/steven-simon * United States National Security Council staffers Living people Jewish American government officials Year of birth missing (living people) Colby College faculty Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni Harvard Divinity School alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni 21st-century American Jews {{US-politician-stub