Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on governance, conflict, and security in Libya, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. He is the author of The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018). His previous book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings (Columbia University Press, 2013), was named a “Best Book on the Middle East” by Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy magazines in 2014 and 2013, respectively. He is currently writing a book on African and Middle Eastern resistance to European imperialism during the interwar period, under contract with Liveright/W.W. Norton. Before joining Carnegie, Wehrey was a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. He served for two decades as an officer in the US Air Force, with tours across the Middle East and North and East Africa. He holds a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University and a Master’s in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.
