| Reuel Marc Gerecht |
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Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at AEI. An expert in Middle East affairs, he has focused since 9/11 on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as on terrorism and intelligence. He is the author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997) and The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy (AEI Press, 2004). He is a contributing editor for The Weekly Standard and a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, as well as a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Mr. Gerecht formerly held positions as the director of the Middle East Initiative for the Project for the New American Century and as a Middle Eastern specialist in the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Professional Experience
-Director, Middle East Initiative, The Project for the New American Century, 2001
-Risk assessment consultant (Middle East, Central Asia, and the former Soviet Union), Walsingham Inc., 1999-2001
-Consultant on Afghanistan, CBS News, 1999-2000
-Freelance writer, 1994-2001
-Political and consular officer, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1994
-Middle Eastern specialist, Central Intelligence Agency,1985-1994
Education
M.A., Islamic history, Princeton University
The American University of Cairo and Cairo University
University of Edinburgh, The Muir Institute of Islamic Studies
B.A., History, Johns Hopkins University
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| Intelligence |
| Middle East |
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| Central Asia/former Soviet Union |
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Reuel Marc Gerecht
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Assistant: 202-862-5926
Fax: 202-862-4875
E-mail: RGerecht@aei.org
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The Islamic Paradox
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| This monograph concludes that, paradoxically, those who have hated the United States the most now hold the keys to spreading democracy in the Muslim Middle East. [Read More] |
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