Cheryl Benard

Cheryl Benard (born in 1953 in New Orleans, United States) is an adjunct researcher with the RAND Corporation and President of Metis Analytics, an Alexandria, Virginia-based research company. In 2010, she founded The Bamiyan Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to the rebuilding of the Bamiyan Buddhas and to the support of cultural activism in all situations of post-conflict.^[1] Previously she was the research director of a European think tank, the Boltzmann Institute of Politics and prior to that, she taught Political Science at the University of Vienna.

She is a novelist and a widely published author on topics including popular sociology, refugees, women in nation-building, youth radicalization in the European Diaspora, and humanitarian aid. Her books have been translated into many other languages and some were best-sellers in Europe. Benard received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and a B.A. from the American University of Beirut.

She is married to Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander and Maximilian.

Benard has an entry in the Internet Movie Database from her work as a child actor in German movies.

References

1. ^ "The Bamiyan Project". www.thebamiyanproject.org. http://www.thebamiyanproject.org/. Retrieved 2011-08-18. 

Bibliography

• The Government of God: Iran's Islamic Republic (1984) (with Zalmay Khalilzad) ISBN 0-231-05376-2
• Wie aus Mädchen tolle Frauen werden. Selbstbewußtsein jenseits aller Klischees (2000) ISBN 3-453-17264-7 (translation:
• Moghul Buffet (2000) ISBN 1-56947-179-7
• Turning on the Girls (2002) ISBN 0-7434-4291-1
• L'Inconnue de Peshawar (2002) ISBN 2-264-03224-3
• Einsame Cowboys. Jungen in der Pubertät (2002) ISBN 3-423-36295-2 (translation: Lonely Cowboys: boys in puberty
• Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance (2002) ISBN 0-7679-1301-9
• Supermacht Mann: oder das Ende der Vernunft (2004) ISBN 978-3800039982 (translation: Superpower Man: or, the end of reason. This book is critical of U.S. military interventions.)
• Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies (2004) ISBN 0-8330-3438-3

External links

• RAND Expert Biography: Cheryl Benard

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