SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Thanassis Cambanis
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
ac2888@columbia.edu

Biography:
Thanassis Cambanis is a journalist who has covered the Middle East for nearly a decade. His first book, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel, was published in 2010. He is a fellow at The Century Foundation, writes “The Internationalist” column for The Boston Globe Ideas section, and is a correspondent for The Atlantic. Thanassis regularly contributes to The New York Times, The Boston Globe (where he served as a foreign correspondent in Iraq and the Middle East), and other publications. He is currently working on a book about the efforts of Egyptian revolutionaries to create a new political order after Mubarak.

He teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and the New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs in New York City, where he lives with his family. In 2009 Cambanis served as a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Thanassis got his master’s in public affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He studied history and creative writing for his bachelor’s at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.