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Geneive Abdo
Fellow
Program - DC
E-mail:  abdo@tcf.org

Geneive Abdo is a fellow and Iran analyst at The Century Foundation. Before joining The Century Foundation, she was a liaison for the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations, a project created by the U.N. secretary general to improve relations between Western and Islamic societies. She was a foreign correspondent for many years in the Middle East and the broader Islamic world. From 1998 to 2001, she was the Iran correspondent for the British newspaper, the Guardian, and a regular contributor to the Economist. She was the first American journalist to be based in Tehran since the United States cut off ties with Iran in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She is author of the books Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 (Oxford University Press, 2006) and No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2000), and the coauthor of Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran (Henry Holt, 2003). Her commentaries and essays on Islam have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine, the Washington Post, the Washington Quarterly, the International Herald Tribune, the New Republic, the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, and Middle East Report. She has been a commentator on Now with Bill Moyers, National Public Radio, the BBC, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Oprah, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, and other radio and television services. From 2001 to 2002, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. That year, she also received a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim fellowship. She also has earned research grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She received her B.A. in political science and Middle East studies from the University of Texas. She was part of the Intensive Arabic Program at Middlebury College and the American University in Cairo and was a fellow in the MA program in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Currently, she is developing a project on internal Iranian politics, which includes the publication of a Web-based bulletin to be launched in September 2009.


Publications on International Affairs

Genieve Abdo in Foreign Policy
Geneive Abdo, Foreign Policy, 7/1/2008

Turkish Pioneers Redefine Islamic Laws
Geneive Abdo, Islamic Affairs Analyst , 4/17/2008


Articles on International Affairs

Best and Worst from Iran
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 12/23/2009

A Supreme Loss of Faith in Iran
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 12/1/2009

Iran’s Opposition Demands Obama Take a Stand
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 11/12/2009

In Wake of Protests, Khamenei Faces Split Inside Regime
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 6/29/2009

The Battle for Qom's Hearts and Minds
Geneive Abdo, Foreign Policy, 6/19/2009

Change For Iran Still A Long Way Off
Geneive Abdo, Radio Free Europe, 6/16/2009

Iran’s Militias Could Tip Election in Ahmadinejad’s Favor
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 6/11/2009

Presidential Candidates Compete for Student Vote
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 5/22/2009

Ahmadinejad’s Speech Rallies Supporters At Home and Abroad
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 5/8/2009

Nuclear Issue Unites Conservatives and Reformists
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 4/27/2009

Ahmadinejad Adopts New Strategy on Campaign Trail
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 4/13/2009

Personalities, Not Policies, Dominate Iranian Election
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 3/27/2009

Supreme Leader Delivers Multiple Messages in Key Address
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 3/27/2009

Mousavi Enters Presidential Race
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 3/12/2009

Iran’s Divided Conservatives Plot Election Strategy
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 3/12/2009

Factions Collide as Iranian Presidential Election Heats Up
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 2/27/2009

Iran’s Presidential Candidates Respond to Perceived U.S. Overtures
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 2/25/2009

More Than Words
Geneive Abdo, Foreign Policy, 1/29/2009

Review of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Geneive Abdo, Washington Post, 7/27/2008

When American Muslims Hurt Their Own Cause
Geneive Abdo, The Dallas Morning News, 7/10/2008

Ignore Iran's Exiled Dream Merchants
Geneive Abdo, Mehrzad  Boroujerdi , The Daily Star, 6/24/2008

Queen Rania's Western Ideal
Geneive Abdo, The Globalist, 6/17/2008

The Future of the Faith
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 6/13/2008

Wishful U.S. Thinking
Geneive Abdo, Al-Ahram Weekly, 3/7/2008

Jihad, Then and Now: Washington Post Book Review
Geneive Abdo, Washington Post, 1/30/2008

Muslims in the Media: Ideologues or Worshippers?
Geneive Abdo, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 10/31/2007

Islamists won't follow Turkey's lead
Geneive Abdo, International Herald Tribune, 9/11/2007

Driving Lebanon’s Christians into Hezbollah’s Arms
Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 8/13/2007



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