Stephen Philip Cohen (May 28, 1945 – January 25, 2017) was a scholar on Middle Eastern affairs.
The Institute is based at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
[1] Cohen was born in Quebec on May 28, 1945 to parents of Lithuanian and Romanian-Jewish descent.
In this time he also organized the first meetings between Shimon Peres and Anwar Sadat and between Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Abba Eban with the leaders of the National Democratic Party (Egypt).
Cohen was a longtime resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, where he died at the age of 71 on January 25, 2017 from male breast cancer.