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Philip Mattar (Arabic: فيليب مطر born 1944) is a Palestinian-American historian who is fluent in English and Arabic. Born in Jerusalem He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Middle Eastern history and has taught history at Yale Georgetown and the City College of New York. Mattar was a Fulbright scholar a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center (September 2001-August 2002) and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (October 2002 – July 2003).