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Tony Badran
Tony Badran is a Research Fellow with the Center for Terrorism Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington, DC. He focuses on Lebanon, Syria and Hezbollah.

His research includes US policy towards Lebanon and Syria; Syrian foreign policy, with a focus on its regional relations with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel and Lebanon; Syria’s ties to militant non-state actors and terrorist groups; and Syria’s international relations, especially with Russia and the EU. Mr. Badran’s other research has dealt with Syria’s use of information warfare, as well as with the Syrian opposition movement.

Mr. Badran also specializes in Lebanese affairs and has authored original work on the military history of the Lebanese civil war and on Hezbollah. Mr. Badran also works on Islamist groups in the Levant.

Mr. Badran’s writings have appeared in a number of mainstream publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Forbes.com, National Review Online, ForeignPolicy.com, the Jerusalem Post, the Daily Star, NOW Lebanon, and the Mideast Monitor, among others, as well as in academic and policy journals and publications, including the Middle East Review for International Affairs, the Middle East Quarterly, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Transatlantic Issues, and In Focus Quarterly, as well as FDD’s Policy Studies and Policy Briefings.

Mr. Badran appears regularly in the media both in the US and abroad, and is frequently quoted in print including in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun, Slate, the Weekly Standard, Reason, Foreign Policy, City Journal, and NOW Lebanon, among others.

In addition, Mr. Badran speaks regularly at leading policy research institutes and schools. He has held regular briefings with US and EU government officials, and was invited to testify at a hearing on Syria in the European Parliament.

Mr. Badran is also the author of a well-respected blog, Across the Bay, where he reports and comments on developments impacting the Levant and US policy in the region.

Born and raised in Lebanon, Mr. Badran is currently completing his doctorate at New York University. He is fluent in English, French, Arabic and Greek and has a working knowledge of German and Hebrew.
 
Media

In the Media
Print & Online
Hezbollah Is Not The IRA, NOW Lebanon (02/02/2010)
Lebanon's Next War May Also Be Syria's, NOW Lebanon (01/26/2010)
US Diffidence in the Gulf is Not An Option, NOW Lebanon (01/19/2010)
Strong Horse Politics, Now Lebanon (01/13/2010)
Washington is Narrowing its Options on Iran, NOW Lebanon (01/05/2010)

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Broadcast
Center for Security Policy Radio, Center for Security Policy Radio (06/12/2009)
News Update, WHYY Radio (09/10/2007)
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5 FM (04/16/2007)
News Update, WKYH (08/17/2006)
Live with Jeff Shell and Lee Michaels, Salem Radio Network (08/08/2006)

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Mentions
War and Peace in the Levant, quoted by Noah Pollak, Commentary (02/01/2010)
Cold Desert Nights, quoted by Lee Smith, The Tablet (01/19/2010)
Lebanon -- A Second Front for Hamas?, Editorial, The Washington Times (01/09/2009)
Syria at the Door, Hanin Ghaddar, Now Lebanon (10/09/2008)
Obama Adviser Offers Some Advice to Damascus, Eli Lake, New York Sun (08/20/2008)

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International Media
Lebanon: Conflict Widens to Syria, quoted by Jonathan Spyer, Jerusalem Post (01/28/2010)
Has Hizbullah Changed? The 7th Hizbullah General Conference and Its Continued Ideology of Resistance, Mentioned by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, Jerusalem Issue Briefs (12/14/2009)
No Way Home: The Tragedy of the Palestinian Diaspora, The Independent (U.K.) (10/22/2009)
Studio 24 (08/19/2009)
Anta wa al-Hadath (08/15/2009)

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Research

Briefings and Testimonies
The Lebanese Elections and Hezbollah's Agenda (06/05/2009)
Syria and the Gaza Crisis (01/16/2009)
Syria Sets its Traps for the Obama Administration, The Middle East Review of International Affairs (12/01/2008)
Intercepted Letters from al-Qaeda Leaders Shed Light on State of Network in Iraq (09/12/2008)

Studies and Monographs
Hezbollah's Agenda in Lebanon (05/17/2009)
Lebanon's Militia Wars, Middle East Review of International Affairs (06/01/2008)
Events

FDD Research Fellow Tony Badran Participates in AIPAC Panel
May 5, 2009
Tony Badran Participates in Conference on Syria
March 25, 2009
FDD Fellow Tony Badran to Participate in Panel Discussing Iran's War Against the West
November 18, 2008
FDD fellow Tony Badran participates in a Hudson Insitute event
May 13, 2008
FDD's Tony Badran to participate in panel discussion on blogging in the Middle East
February 4, 2008

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From the Blogs

The Syrian Mirage: All Bills and No Merchandise, Across the Bay (07/22/2009)
The Syrians Have Nothing, and Demand Everything, Across the Bay (07/09/2009)
'Death to the Rahbar': Iran, Hezbollah, Velayat-e Faqih, and Lebanon, Across the Bay (06/24/2009)
Lebanon May Have Missed Going Iran's Way, Across the Bay (06/19/2009)
Why the Western Press Corps Botched Lebanon's Elections, Across the Bay (06/17/2009)

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