Abdallah Schleifer

S. Abdallah S. Schleifer (born Marc Schleifer; 1935 – 27 March 2025) was an American Middle East scholar who served as a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (United States) and the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Jordan).

Life and career Schleifer was born in 1935. A one-time NBC Cairo Bureau chief (1974–1983),

His career in journalism in the Middle East began in 1965, when he served as the first managing editor of The Jerusalem Star, an English-language Jordanian newspaper that has since changed its name to The Palestine News. In 1967, Schleifer became an editorial assistant and then a special correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem and then in Amman, and, from 1968-1972, the Middle East correspondent of Jeune Afrique.

Born Mark Schleifer to a secular Jewish family on Long Island, he received his BA in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956

Schleifer died on 27 March 2025.