Jean-Pierre Filiu

Jean-Pierre Filiu is a professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po and a historian of contemporary Islam and the Arab world. His books include Les Neuf vies d'Al-Qaida (Fayard, 2009), and he has written on jihadist networks, French policy in the Middle East and Palestinian history in journals including the Middle East Journal and the Journal of Palestine Studies. He was an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia in 2010-11.