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Frederic Wehrey

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Frederic Wehrey (2014)

Frederic Wehrey is an American scholar of Middle East affairs and an expert on Libyan and Gulf politics.[1] He is a Senior Associate at the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[2] Wehrey earned a PhD from Oxford University.[1]

He is the author of the book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings, which was chosen by Foreign Policy as one of the top five books of 2013[3] and by Foreign Affairs as one of top three books on the Middle East.[4]

Wehrey has lectured at Princeton,[5] Dartmouth,[6] and Georgetown University.[7] His articles have appeared in The New Yorker,[8] The Washington Post,[9] The New York Times,[10] Foreign Affairs,[11] Foreign Policy[12] and he has appeared on CNN, PBS NewsHour,[13] and The Charlie Rose Show,[14] among others.

Dr. Wehrey has testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives on the need for a more effective U.S. policy in Libya.[15]

Books

  • Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings. Columbia University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780231536103.
  • The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2018. ISBN 978-0-374-27824-3.

References