Director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and a Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

Professor Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and a professor at the Interdisciplinary University. He is editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal and of Turkish Studies journal. He writes the Middle East column for the Jerusalem Post.

His latest books are The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-MacMillan, April 2007) and The Future of the Middle East (Sharpe, in press). His recent edited works include Iraq After Saddam (Sharpe, in press), Global Survey of Islamism (Sharpe, in press), the three-volume collection Political Islam (Routledge), and an eight-volume introductory book series to the Middle East (Sharpe, in press).