Philip Mattar (Arabic: فيليب مطر, born 1944)[1] is a Palestinian American historian.
[2] Mattar was a Fulbright scholar, a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center (September 2001 - August 2002), and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (October 2002 - July 2003).
[2] Mattar's 1988 book, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, was "the first full-length biography" of Haj Amin al-Husseini.
[5] He was the editor of the "Encyclopedia of the Palestinians", published by Facts on File in 2000.
Mattar has also published in Foreign Policy, Middle East Journal and Middle Eastern Studies and was one of the experts featured on National Public Radio's seven-part series, The Mideast: A Century of Conflict, in 2002.