Paul Scham

Paul Scham, an adjunct scholar Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., is a writer, speaker, and activist specializing in conflict resolution and Israeli-Palestinian understanding at grassroots, scholarly, and diplomatic levels. He earned his BA from Columbia Universityand his J.D. from the Universityof California Berkeley, and completed graduate work at Princeton University. Mr. Scham practiced law for several years, and in 1989 founded the Washington office of Americans for Peace Now.A He...See more

Paul Scham, an adjunct scholar Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., is a writer, speaker, and activist specializing in conflict resolution and Israeli-Palestinian understanding at grassroots, scholarly, and diplomatic levels. He earned his BA from Columbia Universityand his J.D. from the Universityof California Berkeley, and completed graduate work at Princeton University. Mr. Scham practiced law for several years, and in 1989 founded the Washington office of Americans for Peace Now.A He subsequently became a research fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of PeaceA at Hebrew University, coordinating on its large program of Arab-Israeli research, academic cooperation, and civil society proA-jects. Since his return to theA U.S.in 2002, he has been a frequent guest on radio and television programs, and has continued to write and lecture extensively on the subject. Mr. Scham speaks English, Hebrew, and some Arabic. See less