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Philip Mattar (Arabic: فيليب مطر, born 1944) is a Palestinian American historian,who is fluent in English and Arabic. Born in Jerusalem,He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Middle Eastern history and has taught history at Yale, Georgetown, and the City College of New York. Mattar was a Fulbright scholar, a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center (September 2001-August 2002), and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (October 2002-July 2003).He is the President of the Palestinian American Research Center in Washington D.C. and was executive director of the Institute for Palestine Studies from 1984 to 2001.
Mattar's 1988 book, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, was "the first full-length biography" of Amin al-Husayni. Mattar has also published in Foreign Policy, Middle East Journal and Middle Eastern Studies and was one of the experts featured on National Public Radio's seven-part series, "The Mideast: A Century of Conflict," in 2002
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