Mr. Salame is the Former Minister of Culture of Lebanon and presently a UN Senior Advisor on Iraq.
He studied Literature, Political Science and Law and taught Political Science in Saint-Joseph University (Beyrouth) and in American Universities. He was Rockefeller Fellow in International Relations (1981), Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. (1983), a member of the Social Science Research Council in New York (1985-1990) and Co-Director of its program "State, Nation and Integration in the Arab World" (1986-1991).
He is a member of the Regional Commission for the Mediterranean Sea in the French Commissariat du Plan and a member of the Scientific Council of the Tunis Research Institute on Contemporary Maghreb. He is even a member of the editorial committees of various journals, and he frequently appears in the French media talking about international politics.