Steven Simon is a former United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa. He also previously served as the Executive Director IISS-US and Corresponding Director IISS-Middle East and as a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute based in Washington, D.C. He was Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, at the

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. He was a Spring 2008 Berlin Prize Fellow. Steven Simon is now a visiting professor at Colby College in Maine.

Education

Simon holds a BA in Classics and Near Eastern Languages from Columbia University, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and an MPA from Princeton University.

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

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, before he became a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). He was an International Affairs Fellow at Oxford University and a University Fellow at

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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