Chris Toensing: “The Arab Revolts in Balance”

Chris Toensing is the executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project and editor of MERIP’s publication, Middle East Report. He holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and later studied Middle Eastern History at Georgetown University. An Arabic speaker, he has lived in Egypt and traveled widely in the Arab Middle East since 1990. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and that organization’s Committee on Academic Freedom.