Fawaz Gerges è professore ordinario presso la London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) dove detiene la Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. Tra i suoi scritti si segnalano Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2018), ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, 2016); Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalised Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, 2005).