Robert Silverman is a former U.S. diplomat with 27 years of experience primarily working in and on the Middle East. He served as political counselor in Israel, economic counselor in Saudi Arabia, deputy chief of mission in Sweden and governance coordinator of Salah al-Din Province of Iraq, among nine overseas assignments. In Washington, he was elected to serve as president of the American Foreign Service Association by its 17,000 members.
Mr. Silverman currently teaches at Shalem College in Jerusalem in the Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy departments. He edits the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune (www.jstribune.com), a foreign affairs journal. He is also president and co-founder of IJMA, the Inter- Jewish Muslim Alliance (www.ijma-alliance.org).
Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew are his principal foreign languages. Mr. Silverman translated Ali Salem’s “A Drive to Israel” from Arabic to English.