Stephen Zunes
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Radio: Bio of Stephen Zunes
November 26, 2006
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Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and chair of the peace and justice studies program at the University of San Francisco. He serves as a senior policy analyst and Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus, a joint endeavor of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Research Center.
A native of North Carolina, Zunes received his PhD from Cornell University, his MA from Temple University, and his BA from Oberlin College. He has taught and lectured widely, holding faculty positions at Ithaca College, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College. He is an associate editor of Peace Review and won recognition in 2002 by the Peace and Justice Studies Association as peace scholar of the year.
Zunes is the author of scores of articles for scholarly and general readership on Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, international terrorism, social movements, and human rights. He is the principal editor of "Nonviolent Social Movements" (Blackwell Publishers, 1999) and the author of the highly-acclaimed "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism" (Common Courage Press, 2003) and the forthcoming "Western Sahara: Nationalism and Conflict in Northwest Africa" (Syracuse University Press).
He was also a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship on Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies at Dartmouth College in 1995 and a Joseph J. Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic studies in 1991. Previously, he served as founding director of the Institute for a New Middle East Policy and as a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Institute for Global Security Studies. He has also served as a fellow of the United States Institute of Peace on the study of international and regional organizations in conflict resolution.
Zunes has made frequent visits to the Middle East, where he has met with top government officials, academics, journalists and opposition leaders.
Zunes is a foreign affairs columnist for the National Catholic Reporter and a regular contributor to CommonDreams.org. His periodic op-ed columns are circulated on the Knight-Ridder wire service and have appeared in major daily newspapers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. In addition, he has spoken at over 70 colleges and universities and scores of community groups and is a frequent guest on Pacifica Radio, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC radio, MSNBC, and other media outlets for analysis on breaking world events. He serves on the Middle East Task Force for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and as a consultant for a number of peace and human rights organizations in both the United States and overseas.
-- Bio provided by Stephen Zunes
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