Robert Satloff

Robert B. Satloff is an American historian 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.

Early life 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. which asserted that some Muslims and Arabs rescued potential victims of the Holocaust as well as those who collaborated in those programs. He claimed that no Arab had been honored saving Jews during the Holocaust and explored reasons why. Norman Stillman described the book as a "well-balanced assessment" of the experience of Moroccan Jews during World War II. It was also reviewed by the Jewish Book Council. In 2010, American broadcaster PBS released Among the Righteous, a documentary based on Satloff's book.

Reception Satloff has been described as "a longtime expert on Arab and Islamic politics".

Publications Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (PublicAffairs, 2006). The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror: Essays on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East (The Washington Institute, 2004). U.S. Policy toward Islamism (Council on Foreign Relations, 2000) From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition (Oxford University Press, 1994) Troubles on the East Bank: Challenges to the Domestic Stability of Jordan (Praeger, 1986)