Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
Lebanese writer and political analyst
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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] The Guardian,[8] Foreign Affairs,[9] The Washington Post,[10] and Lebanon's Al Akhbar.[11]
Her father, Abdo Saad, is a Shiite pollster;[12] her mother is Christian.
As of 2026, she is working as a lecturer at Cardiff University.[13]
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