Robert G. Rabil

Dr. Robert G. Rabil is an internationally renowned scholar. He is a Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel and Lebanon (2003); Syria, United States and the War on Terror in the Middle East (2006); Religion, National Identity and Confessional Politics in Lebanon: The Challenge of Islamism (2011); Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism (2014); The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon (2016); White Heart (2018); and most recently Lebanon and Turkey: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Realities. He received his doctorate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. He served as the Red Cross’s Chief of Emergency in Baabda region, Beirut, during Lebanon’s civil war. He was the project manager of the US State Department-funded Iraq Research and Documentation Project. He was awarded the LLS Distinguished Faculty Award, the LLS Distinguished Professor of Current Affairs, and FAU Scholar of the Year. He was also conferred with an honorary Ph.D. in Humanities from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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