Emanuele Ottolenghi (born 1969) is an Italian political scientist and publicist. He is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, DC. [1] [2]
Ottolenghi earned a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bologna. He has taught at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, as well as the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. From 2006 to 2010, he ran the Brussels-based AJC Transatlantic Institute. [3]
Ottolenghi's main research interests are Israeli domestic policy, constitutional and electoral law issues, as well as Italian foreign policy and the Middle East conflict. He has published articles on these topics in academic compilations. He has expertise on antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Italy, and terrorism. [4]
He has written about Middle East issues for Commentary , The Daily Mirror , The Guardian , National Review Online, Newsday , the Jewish Chronicle , and the Middle East Quarterly , as well as European publications: Corriere del Ticino , il Foglio , Libero , Il Riformista , Liberal , Standpoint , L'Unità , and Die Welt . [5]
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