Joseph Braude is president of the Center for Peace Communications, which hosts the Salem Initiative, a project devoted to protecting Arab civil peacemakers from retribution for engaging in people-to-people contact with Israelis.
Braude’s published books include a prescription for post-Saddam institution building in Iraq (The New Iraq, Basic Books, 2003), a study of crime and punishment in Casablanca (The Honored Dead, Random House, 2011), and an assessment of prospects to foster liberal social trends through Arab media (Broadcasting Change, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).