On May 2 2017, APN held a briefing call with Shibley Telhami, an expert on Palestinian politics and on U.S. Middle East policy, to discuss Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ white House meeting with President Trump.

Professor Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The World through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East, the co-editor of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011, and a leading pollster of public opinion in the Middle East and U.S. public opinion about the region.