Mustapha Tlili

Mustapha Tlili

Mustapha Tlili - Sorbonne-educated, Mustapha Tlili is the founder and director of the Center for Dialogues, a research scholar at New York University, and senior fellow at its Remarque Institute. Previously, Prof. Tlili taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and was a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute of New School University.

He is a former senior UN official, having served as director for communications policy in the United Nations Department of Public Information, director of the UN information center for France, located in Paris, and chief of the Namibia, Anti-Apartheid, Palestine and decolonization programs in the same department. An established novelist, Mustapha Tlili is a knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He is also a member of Human Rights Watch’s Advisory Committee for the Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Tlili served as a member of the Leadership Group on US-Muslim World Engagement, along with Madeleine Albright, Dennis Ross, Richard Armitage, and other American political and cultural leaders. Last September, the group issued its report under the title, “Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World”.