12 Facts About Fawaz Gerges

Fawaz A Gerges is a Lebanese-American academic and author with expertise on the Middle East, US foreign policy, international relations, social movements, and relations between the Islamic and Western worlds.

Fawaz Gerges holds the Emirates Chair of the Contemporary Middle East at the LSE, and he was the inaugural Director of the LSE's Middle East Centre from 2010 to 2013.

Fawaz A Gerges was born into a Greek Orthodox family in 1959 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Fawaz Gerges stayed in Syria for a year before moving to the United States.

Fawaz Gerges earned a MSc at the London School of Economics and a DPhil from Oxford University.

Fawaz Gerges taught at Oxford, Harvard, and Columbia universities and was a research fellow at Princeton University for two years.

Fawaz Gerges held the Christian A Johnson Endeavor Foundation Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College.

Fawaz Gerges is the author of numerous books and publications, including: Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy, and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global.

Fawaz Gerges has appeared on television and radio networks throughout the world, including CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, the BBC and Al Jazeera.

Fawaz Gerges is married to Professor Nora Colton, an economist and Director of the University College of London's Global Business School For Health.

Fawaz Gerges was born during a Lebanese civil war in 1958 and was part of the 1975 war generation.

Fawaz Gerges has lived most of his life in the United States and now resides in London.