{{Short description|American historian}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Satloff | image = Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel walks with The Washington Institutes executive director Robert Satloff.jpg | caption = Sartloff with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = Duke University (BA)<br>Harvard University (MA)<br>St. Antony's College, Oxford (PhD) | spouse = Jennie Litvack | children = 3 }} '''Robert B. Satloff''' is an American historian<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lis |first1=Jonathan |title=Israeli Officials Believe Iran Talks Headed for 'Controlled Conflict' or Interim Deal |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-12-19/ty-article/israel-iran-nucelar-talks-controlled-conflict-deal-biden/0000017f-ef3a-d4cd-af7f-ef7aa1410000 |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=Haaretz |date=2021-12-19}}</ref><ref name="PBS">{{cite news |title=Documentary Examines 'Righteous' Arab Actions During Holocaust |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/documentary-examines-righteous-arab-actions-during-holocaust |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=PBS |date=2010-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Book Tracks Holocaust's 'Lost Stories' |url=https://www.npr.org/2006/12/08/6599958/book-tracks-holocausts-lost-stories |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=NPR |date=2006-12-08}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Washingtonian" />
==Writing career== Satloff has authored or edited nine books. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The Washington Post'', and the ''Los Angeles Times''.
In 2006, Satloff wrote ''Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands'',<ref>[https://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2006/12/review-of-robert-satloffs-among.html Review] by Deborah Lipstadt: ''The Schindlers of the Middle East'' Washington Post December 10, 2006</ref> which asserted that some Muslims and Arabs rescued potential victims of the Holocaust as well as those who collaborated in those programs.{{Clarify|date=January 2024}} He claimed that no Arab had been honored saving Jews during the Holocaust and explored reasons why.<ref>{{cite journal |date=Winter 2008 |title=Book Notes |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42944561 |journal=Shofar |volume=26 |issue=2 |page=213 |jstor=42944561 |access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref>{{Importance inline|date=January 2024}} Norman Stillman described the book as a "well-balanced assessment" of the experience of Moroccan Jews during World War II.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stillman |first1=Norman |date=Autumn 2019 |title=Moroccan Jews in Modern Times: Orientations and Reorientations |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48561445 |journal=European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe |volume=52 |issue=2 |page=17 |jstor=48561445 |access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref> It was also reviewed by the Jewish Book Council.<ref name="Simon">{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Rachel |date=2011-10-26 |title=Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/among-the-righteous-lost-stories-from-the-holocausts-long-reach-into-arab-lands |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=Jewish Book Council}}</ref> In 2010, American broadcaster PBS released ''Among the Righteous'', a documentary based on Satloff's book.<ref name="PBS" />
Satloff has also provided commentary for news programs and talk shows, as well as National Public Radio. Satloff hosts a program on an Arab satellite channel: he is the creator and host of ''Dakhil Washington'' (Inside Washington), a weekly news and interview program on al-Hurra, the U.S. government-sponsored Arabic satellite television channel.
==Personal life== Satloff lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Jennie Litvack, an economist and horn player, and three sons, Benjamin, William and David.{{Source needed|date=January 2024}} He is Jewish.<ref name="duke-satloff">{{cite web |title=Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Robert Satloff |url=https://students.duke.edu/alumni-spotlight-dr-robert-satloff/ |website=students.duke.edu |publisher=Duke University |access-date=12 January 2025}}</ref>
==Reception== Satloff has been described as "a longtime expert on Arab and Islamic politics".<ref name="Simon" /><ref name="Washingtonian" /> In 2023, ''Washingtonian'' magazine named him one of the 500 most influential people in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Washingtonian">{{cite news |title=Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People of 2023 |url=https://washingtonian.com/2023/04/27/washington-dcs-500-most-influential-people-of-2023/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=Washingtonian |date=2023-04-27}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands'' (PublicAffairs, 2006). {{ISBN|1-58648-399-4}} *''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)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *[http://www.meforum.org/article/1073 Righteous Muslims. A briefing by Robert Satloff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013023456/http://www.meforum.org/article/1073 |date=2008-10-13 }} by Rachel Silverman, ''Jewish Exponent'', December 14, 2006 (Middle East Forum, December 11, 2006)
==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/satloff-robert Official web page at Washington Institute] *{{C-SPAN|21405}} *{{cite magazine|url=http://www.tnr.com/showBio.mhtml?pid=758 |accessdate=2006-12-31 |title=Robert Satloff's Recent Articles |magazine=The New Republic |year=2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091609/http://www.tnr.com/showBio.mhtml?pid=758 |archivedate=September 29, 2007 }}
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