Fawaz Gerges

Fawaz A. Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in Contemporary Middle East Studies. He was the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre from 2010 to 2013. He holds doctorates from Oxford University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. He has held academic positions at Oxford, Harvard, and Columbia universities, served as a research scholar at Princeton, and was a chairholder of the Christian A. Johnson Chair at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.