Jean-Pierre Filiu

Jean-Pierre Filiu is a French professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. A historian and an Arabist, he has also been visiting professor at Columbia University and Georgetown University. He has been invited as a guest speaker to various American universities and think tanks, including the Harvard Kennedy School and the James Baker Institute. His "Apocalypse in Islam" was awarded the main prize (Augustin-Thierry) by the French History convention, held every October in the city of Blois.