Dr.
Fawaz Gerges
Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Arab and Muslim Politics
Sarah Lawrence College
Fawaz A. Gerges, who holds the Christian A. Johnson Chair in
International Affairs and Arab and Muslim Politics at Sarah Lawrence,
New York, is author of the recently published "Journey of the Jihadist:
Inside Muslim Militancy" Harcourt Press, 2007), and The Far Enemy: Why
Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, 2005). The Washington
Post selected The Far Enemy as one of the best 15 books published in the
field. Journey of the Jihadist was on the best-selling list of Barnes
and Nobles and Foreign Affairs Magazine for four months.
His articles and editorials 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 Independent
(London), Al Hayat (London), Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Middle
East Journal, Survival, Al Mustqbal al-Arabi, Middle East Insight, and
many others.
His special interests include Islam and the political process, social
movements, Arab and Muslim politics, state and society in the Middle
East, American foreign policy towards the Muslim world, the modern
history of the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and history of
conflict, diplomacy and foreign policy. Gerges has taught at Oxford,
Harvard, and Columbia, and was a research scholar at Princeton for two
years. He earned a doctorate from Oxford University and MA from the
London School of Economics and Political Science.
Gerges has given scores of interviews for various media outlets
throughout the world, , including ABC, CNN, BBC, PBS, CBS, NPR, CBC, and
Al Jazeera, and LBC. He has been a guest on The Charlie Rose Show, The
Oprah Winfrey Show, The Bill Moyers Journal, The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, ABC Nightline, World News Tonight, This Week, Good Morning
America and other prominent shows. He was a senior ABC television news
analyst from 2000 until 2006, when he left to reside in the Middle East
as a Carnegie Scholar.
Gerges has been the recipient of a MacArthur, Fullbright and Carnegie
Fellowships and his books, including America and Political Islam: Clash
of Cultures or Clash of Interests? (Cambridge University Press, 2000)and
The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics
(Oxford and Westview), have been translated into a number of foreign
languages.
No armchair historian, Gerges was recently a Carnegie Scholar, who has
just returned from the Middle East after completing a fifteen-month
field study in the region. He has interviewed hundreds of civil society
leaders, activists, and mainstream and radical Islamists in the Muslim
world and within Muslim communities in Europe.
Now he is working on two books. The first is tentatively titled: "Sayyid
Qutb's Last Will: Geneology of Revolutionary Islamism." The other is:
"Understanding Arab Politics: From Nasser To Nasrallah."