He was born in 1944 in Damascus, Syria to an aristocratic family,[1] and moved to West Germany in 1962, where he later became a naturalized citizen in 1976.

Bassam Tibi's views can be accurately stated by a quote from the German distinguished Professor Walter Reese-Schäfer.

The views of Bassam Tibi can be best referred to by quoting from his twelve books written and published in English.

Tibi argues that there is a need for Europe to defend these values, especially in times of globalization and migration from Muslim countries.

[7] He has criticised the left-green dominated German media for stifling debate about Islam in Germany, leading to ordinary people being afraid to state their opinions.

As an example he gives Uwe Tellkamp, who expressed criticism against the German policy of migration and was attacked in mainstream media and painted as a right-extremist.

He states that in the 1990s, the Likud adopted the "Three Nos" policy:[9] "No to the Palestinian State, no to dividing Jerusalem, no to returning Golan Heights to Syria.According to Tibi, the Likud government of 1996 engaged in provoking Arabs by constructing Har Homa in Arab Jerusalem, and digging a tunnel under the Temple Mount, and thereby exposing Israel to terrorism.