Paul Salem is the new Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center. Formerly, General Director at The Fares Foundation and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, member of the Lebanese National Commission for Electoral Law Reform, member of the Senior Review Committee for the UNDP Arab Human Development Report. He also has held various positions at the American University in Beirut. Selected Publications: Handbook for Arab Parliamentarians, editor, (Beirut and Kuwait: Arab Parliamentarians Against Corruption and Transparency, Lebanon, 2006); Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Selected Essays, editor, (American University Press, Beirut, 1997); Administrative Decentralization in Lebanon: Issues and Applications, co-editor with Antoine Messara (Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, 1996); Bitter Legacy: Ideology and Politics in the Arab World (Syracuse University Press, 1994); The First Elections in Lebanon After the War, co-editor with Farid el-Khazen (Dar al-Nahar and Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, 1993)