Fawaz A. Gerges is a Professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he holds the Emirates Chair in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at LSE. He is author of several acclaimed books, including ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, February 2016); The New Middle East: Social Protest and Revolution in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalised Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). His forthcoming book is tentatively titled The Hundred-Year-War for Control of the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2020).
His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian; The Independent, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the Middle East Journal, and many others. He has been the recipient of a MacArthur, Fullbright and Carnegie Fellowships and his books have been translated into a number of foreign languages.
