Dr. Robert Rabil is a professor in Florida Atlantic University's Department of Political Science. Previously, Rabil served as the chief of emergency for the Red Cross in Beirut, Lebanon, taught at Suffolk University, and was the project manager of the U.S. State Department funded-Iraq Research and Documentation Project. His areas of research and expertise includes political Islam and terrorism, transnational and revivalist movements, U.S. relations with Arab and Muslim countries, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, reform in the Arab world, minorities in the Middle East and more broadly, contemporary Middle Eastern & Southeastern politics. Countries in particular that fall under Dr. Rabil's expertise include Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. He has published extensively on his areas of expertise, including multiple books such as Lebanon and Turkey: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Realities, and Salafism In Lebanon.