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Bilal Y. Saab
LinkedIn: @Bilal Y.S About Bilal Y. Saab is a political-military analyst and former practitioner on the Middle East and U.S. policy toward the region. He specializes in the Levant and the Gulf and focuses on security cooperation between the United States and its regional partners, and national security and defense processes in Arab partner countries. He is the author of Rebuilding Arab Defense: U.S. Security Cooperation in the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, May 2022) At the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C, Saab is Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense and Security Program. In addition, he is an Independent Contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, providing advisory services on defense governance and institutional capacity building in the Middle East, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service. Prior to MEI, Saab served as Senior Advisor for Security Cooperation in the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, with oversight responsibilities for U.S. Central Command. Saab has a BA from AUB, an MLitt from the University of St Andrews, and an MA from the University of Maryland, College Park. Issues of Expertise Arms Control; Defense; Deterrence; Regional Security; Security Cooperation; Defense Strategy; Defense Posture; US Defense Policy Countries of Expertise Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and UAE Languages Arabic, English, and French |
