FAWAZ A. GERGES

Fawaz A. Gerges is the Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations. He earned a doctorate from Oxford University and M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at Oxford, Harvard, and Columbia,and was a research scholar at Princeton and chairholder at Sarah Lawrence College,New York.

He has been the recipient of a MacArthur, Fullbright, and Carnegie Fellowships and his books have been translated into a number of foreign languages.

A regular television commentator, Professor Gerges has given hundreds of interviews for various media outlets throughout the world, including ABC, CNN, BBC, PBS, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, CBC, and Al Jazeera.

He is author of several acclaimed books, including The Arab Uprisings: A New Era of Politics (forthcoming); Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment in the Middle East? (May 2012); Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda; The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global; America and Political Islam: of Cultures or Clash of Interests?, and The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics.

His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Guardian, The Independent, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Middle East Journal, Survival, the Guardian, The New Statesman, and many others.

His special interests include Islam and the political process, and mainstream Islamist movements and jihadist groups (like the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda); Arab politics and Muslim politics in the 20th century, the international relations of the Middle East, political economy of the Middle East, risk analysis, state and society in the region, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy, the modern history of the Middle East, history of conflict, diplomacy and foreign policy, and historical sociology.

• The Middle East in Turmoil: Religion, Oil, Politics and American Global Strategy
• Oil, Islam, Politics and the World Economy
• The Impact of the Iraq War on Energy Supply and Pricing
• America and Americans in the Eyes of Arabs and Muslims
• The Future of Global Jihad
• Islam and America
• Does Al Qaeda Represent An Existential Threat to America?
• The Muslim World After 9/11
• Is Democracy Compatible With Islam?
• Is There A Way Out of Iraq?
• Taking Stock of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
• Potential Threats to Homeland Security
• America's Grand Strategy In The Greater Middle East
• Iran, The Shia Revival and American Foregin Policy
• Why Suicide Bombing?
• Is There Muslim Public Support for Al Qaeda?
• Winning The War Against Terror