Dr. Emile Nakhleh was a Senior Intelligence Service officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the Central Intelligence Agency.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Research Professor and Director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico, and the author of A Necessary Engagement:  Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World, Bahrain:  Political Development in a Modernizing State, and The Persian Gulf and American Policy.  He has written extensively on Middle East politics, political Islam, radical Sunni ideologies, and terrorism. He is also a Board Member of the World Affairs Council of Albuquerque. His recent writings on terrorism and contemporary regional politics are posted on LobeLog.com and on The Cipher Brief.  Emile received his BA in Political Science from St. John’s University (MN), the MA in Political Science from Georgetown University, and the Ph.D. in International Relations from the American University. He and his wife live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.