Geneive Abdo Biography
Geneive Abdo is a Middle East and Muslim World academic and author of various books. She was previously a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and a fellow in the Stimson Center’s Middle East program.
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Geneive Abdo Education
Abdo attended Harvard University (2001–2002), Princeton University (1992–1993), and also The University of Texas at Austin (1982).
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Abdo lives in Washington, DC with her partner Raju Singh, chief economist at the World Bank.
Geneive Abdo Author- Books
Abdo formerly worked as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, where she specialized in Iraq, Iran, and Shia-Sunni relations. Her current research focuses on the evolving political and theological connections within Middle Eastern Shia populations. Abdo formerly worked at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, an initiative launched by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to ease tensions between Western and Islamic countries. Abdo was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow from 2001 to 2002. He was the Iran reporter for the British daily The Guardian and a regular writer to The Economist and the International Herald Tribune. She was the first American journalist to work in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Abdo is the author of several books, including No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (2000) and Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America (2005). Following 9/11 (2006), The New Sectarianism (Saban Center for Middle East Policy, 2013), and Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran (2003). No God But God chronicles Egypt’s social and political evolution into an Islamic nation, highlighting key people and events that have given moderate Islamists in Egypt great social and political prominence. Answering Only to God aims to explain theological conflict among Shiite clergy in Iran and how it has led to political standstill.
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Quarterly, The New Republic, Newsweek, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and Middle East Report have all published Abdo’s observations and articles on Islam. She has appeared as a pundit on CNN, NPR, BBC, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Al Jazeera, PBS, and other radio and television networks. She routinely lectures at universities and think tanks around the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Geneive Abdo Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.