A historian of the Middle East, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is a native of East Germany who was raised in Egypt. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Leipzig University, has taught at five German and American universities, and served as head of Middle Eastern history at the Academy of Science in Berlin. Schwanitz has been a visiting fellow at the French Center in Cairo, Princeton University, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. The author of nine and the editor of ten books, Schwanitz has published some 150 scholarly articles and over 500 newspaper and magazine pieces on modern Middle Eastern history and international relations. He is a fellow at the Middle East Forum.
