Dr. Emile Sahliyeh received his B.A. and M.A from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. Between 1978 and 1984, he taught at Birzeit University in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. During the following two years, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Brooking Institution in Washington D.C.
In 1987, he joined the department of Political Science at the University of North Texas as a professor of Middle East Politics and international relations. Since 1999, he has been the Director of the International Studies Major at the university of North Texas. He also has served on several university committees including: the Faculty Senate executive Committee, University SACS Compliance Committee, Committee on the Evaluation of Administrators, International Education Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, and the University Curriculum Committee.
Dr. Sahliyeh received several prestigious fellowships including the RAND Corporation fellowship, Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship, Ford Foundation scholarship, Brookings Institution Fellowship, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for International Security Studies. He is also the Co-Recipient of the Citation for distinguished Service for International Education at UNT and the University of North Texas President service Award.
His research focuses on religious resurgence and ethnic protest in the Middle East, Palestinian politics and leadership, issues of war and peace in the Middle East, and the status of democracy and human rights in the Middle East and the Islamic World.
In addition to more than 35 articles and chapters, Dr. Sahliyeh is the author and editor of:
THE PLO AFTER THE LEBANON WAR,
IN SEARCH OF LEADERSHIP: WEST BANK POLITICS SINCE 1967,
And RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.
Dr. Sahliyeh is presently completing a book manuscript on The Status of Democracyand Human Rights in the Middle east.
Finally, Dr. Sahliyeh lectures widely in the United States and the Middle East and is frequently consulted about Middle Eastern politics by the American media and the US government. As part of the State Department Speakers Program, he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and Palestine