Philip Mattar (Arabic: فيليب مطر, born 1944)[1] is a Palestinian American historian,[2] who is fluent in English and Arabic.[3] Born in Jerusalem,[2] 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.[3] 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).[3] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[3]