Economics & Inequality Retirement Security Education Health Care Homeland Security Election Reform Media & Politics International Affairs TCF Project Sites: Donate to TCF Join our Listserv  Taking Note Home About TCF News Room Join our Listserv    Staff       Job Opportunities       Task Forces & Projects       Partners      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 Dealing with Iran: Time for a “Middle Way” between Confrontation and Conciliation Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 4/15/2010 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 The Dissidents Need Some Foreign Support Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, 2/12/2010 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 Copyright 2010 The Century Foundation. Privacy Policy NY Office: 41 East 70th Street—New York, New York—10021—Phone:212-535-4441—212-879-9197 DC Office: 1333 H Street, NW—10th Floor— Washington, D.C. 20005— Phone: 202-387-0400— Fax: 202-483-9430