Dr. Sami Hajjar joined the faculty of NESA in 2004. From 1966-1987, Dr. Hajjar served as a member of the Political Science Department at the University of Wyoming where he was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Full Professor. During his tenure at the University of Wyoming, he taught courses on American Government, political theory, public administration and Middle East politics. He left Wyoming to become a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Information Agency. In 1993, Hajjar resigned his tenured Foreign Service position to serve as advisor to the newly created Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE. In 1994, he accepted an appointment at the U.S. Army War College as professor and director of Middle East Studies. He retired in January 2002, only to accept a temporary appointment for the rest of that year as research professor of national security policy with the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute.

Since retirement, in addition to his work with NESA, he has served as a member of the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Analysis Team that was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq during April and May 2003. More recently he has been a consultant to the U.S. Central Command Forward Headquarters in Camp As Sayliyah (Doha, Qatar), working with the Strategic Communications Division of the Joint Directorate of Operations (J-3). Some of his duties involved engaging the Arab print and broadcast media

Education
• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Missouri - Columbia
• M.A., Public Administration, American University of Beirut
• B.A., Public Administration, American University of Beirut

Areas of Interest
• Strategic Communication

Suggested Readings
• Esposito, J. and Mogahed, D. (2007). Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. New York: Gallup Press.
• Mearsheimer, J. and Walt, S. (2007). The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Metz, S. (2008). Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books.
• Zuhur, S. (2008). Precision in the Global War on Terror: Inciting Muslims through the War of Ideas. Strategic Studies Institute. Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College Press.