Professor Fawaz Gerges

Fawaz Gerges is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations at LSE and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. His new book What Really Went Wrong: The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East is published by Yale University Press London.

Professor Gerges' research interests include Islam and the political process, social movements, including mainstream Islamist movements and jihadist groups (like the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda), Arab politics and Muslim politics of the 20th century, the international relations of the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, state and society in the Middle East, American foreign policy towards the Muslim world, the modern history of the Middle East, history of conflict, diplomacy and foreign policy, and historical sociology.