Yvonne Haddad

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (born in Syria) is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Her interests and focus include contemporary Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; Islam in the West; Qur'anic Exegesis; and gender and Islam.

Haddad's current research focuses on Muslims in the West and on Islamic Revolutionary Movements.

Haddad received her Ph.D. in the Economic, Political Development, and Islamic Heritage in 1979 from Hartford Serminary in Hartford, Connecticut, and her Masters Degree in Comparative History 1971 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Additionally, she attended Boston University, where she received an M.R.E. in Religious Education and Leadership Development in 1966, and the Beirut College for Women in Lebanon.

Yvonne Haddad is Presbyterian. She emigrated to the United States in 1963.

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