Khalil Jahshan is a lecturer in International Studies and Languages at Pepperdine University and Executive Director of its Seaver College’s Washington DC Internship Program. Mr. Jahshan is a Middle East consultant with extensive expertise in Arab-American bilateral relations and United States policy in the Middle East. Between 2000 and 2003, he served as Executive Vice President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the premier Arab-American civil rights organization. Prior to that, between 1990 and 2000, he served as President of the National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA).