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Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he serves as coordinator of the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy, politics and strategic nonviolent action, Zunes has served as a senior policy analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, associate editor of Peace Review and contributing editor to Tikkun. He has authored hundreds of articles for numerous scholarly and general interest publications, and frequently lectures and is interviewed by scores of radio, television and internet media. Zunes was also honored to serve January-June, 2024 as Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Read more or download his Bio/Vitae and high resolution image here.

Contact Zunes for Interviews or Appearances:
Note: March 8-16, 2025 Speaking tour of southeastern U.S.

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Zunes’s Analysis of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency and Beyond

• As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”
• Carter Warned Us about Israeli Apartheid
• Carter’s foreign policy as president (50-min. interview, WORT-FM)

Latest Analysis on: Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Nonviolence, U.S. Elections and aftermath, plus these latest interviews:

• Michael Krasny’s podcast “Greymatter”
• With Kris Welch on KPFA- FM about recent
  developments (segment starts at the 1:05:00 mark)
• Bay Area TV network affiliate: Israeli attacks on Syria

U.S. Reaction to ICC Indictment Reveals Bipartisan Contempt for International Law, plus related interviews
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Other Recent Interviews & Lectures

• Northern California FM station about Western Sahara and U.S. Policy (segment begins after the five-minute mark)
• Lecture & 9 Interviews Nov. 2024 on Trump’s Election & the Middle East
• UN: Charter Reform & Threat If Trump’s Elected
• Lecture: Antisemitism in Pro-Palestinian Movement: What’s Real, What’s Not, Why it Matters
• Video: 10 Interviews Aug.-Oct. 2024
• Video: Oxford Union Debate Against Military Intervention to Promote Democracy
• Radio & Podcast: 4 Interviews

Find Zunes’s Books on the Middle East, Western Sahara, nonviolence, social movements and preventing coups, and his Complete Articles and Written Interviews October 7, 2023 to January 10, 2025.

Search his Archives of over 1000 published, broadcast, and online Articles, Interviews, Lectures, Audio and Video clips, all authored or presented by Professor Stephen Zunes, by Date, Source or Category, including: The Middle East, Western Sahara/Morrocco, Nonviolent Action and Foreign Policy.

VIDEO: Stephen Zunes’ debated Ambassador John Bolton at The
Oxford Union opposing military intervention, April 8, 2023 (11-mins.)