Robert Satloff | |
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![]() Sartloff with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel | |
Education | Duke University (BA) Harvard University (MA) St. Antony's College, Oxford (PhD) |
Spouse | Jennie Litvack |
Children | 3 |
Robert B. Satloff is an American historian [1] [2] [3] on Arab and Islamic politics, U.S.-Israel relations, and the Middle East. Since January 1993, he has been the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Satloff is also a member of the board of editors of the Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the Middle East Forum.
Satloff is from Providence, Rhode Island. He holds a BA from Duke University, a MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from St. Antony's College, Oxford. [4]
Satloff has authored or edited nine books. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times .
In 2006, Satloff wrote Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, [5] which asserted that some Muslims and Arabs rescued potential victims of the Holocaust as well as those who collaborated in those programs.[ clarification needed ] He claimed that no Arab had been honored saving Jews during the Holocaust and explored reasons why. [6] [ importance? ] Norman Stillman described the book as a "well-balanced assessment" of the experience of Moroccan Jews during World War II. [7] It was also reviewed by the Jewish Book Council. [8] In 2010, American broadcaster PBS released "Among the Righteous," a documentary based on Satloff's book. [2]
Satloff has also provided commentary for news programs and talk shows, as well as National Public Radio. Satloff hosts a program on an Arab satellite channel: he is the creator and host of Dakhil Washington (Inside Washington), a weekly news and interview program on al-Hurra, the U.S. government-sponsored Arabic satellite television channel.
Satloff lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Jennie Litvack, an economist and horn player, and three sons, Benjamin, William and David.[ citation needed ] He is Jewish. [9]
Satloff has been described as "a longtime expert on Arab and Islamic politics". [8] [4] In 2023, the Washingtonian magazine named him one of the 500 most influential people in Washington, D.C. [4]