# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-mattar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:59.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-mattar"
name: "Philip Mattar"
slug: "philip-mattar"
description: "Philip Mattar is a Palestinian American historian. Born in Haifa, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Middle Eastern history and has taught history at Yale University, Georgetown University and the City College of New York. Mattar was a Fulbright scholar, a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center, and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He is the President of the Palestinian American Research Center in Washington D.C. whose mission is \"To improve scholarship about Palestinian affairs, expand the pool of experts knowledgeable about the Palestinians, and strengthen linkages among Palestinian, American, and foreign research institutions and scholars.\" He also served as executive director of the Institute for Palestine Studies from 1984 to 2001."
tagline: "Palestinian American historian (born 1944)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             14.51612903225806
  historical:           5.672966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Mattar"
    title: "Philip Mattar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1"
    title: "فيليب مطر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1"
    title: "فيليب مطر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A4_%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%A8"
    title: "פיליפ מטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Mattar"
    title: "Philip Mattar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Mattar"
    title: "Philip Mattar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q645150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump