Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Raymond Ibrahim is a scholar and writer of the Middle East and Islam, and author of The Al-Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007). He was educated at California State University, Fresno (BA and MA in History) and has done graduate work at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies of Georgetown University. His op-eds, essays, translations, and al-Qaeda-related analyses have appeared in various publications and syndications (including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Syndicate, United Press International, Washington Times, Financial Times, National Review, Washington Post, The Jewish Press, Assyrian International News Agency, as well as in international publications). He has been interviewed on a number of radio and TV shows across the political spectrum (including Fox News and NPR), and has lectured at several universities as well as governmental agencies, such as the U.S. State Department. He works at the Near East section of the African and Middle Eastern division of the Library of Congress, where he discovered many of the never-before-translated Arabic texts that make up the bulk of The Al-Qaeda Reader.

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