Education: BA, Political Science, Ohio Wesleyan University 1964; Summer Certificates in Arabic Language Study, American University, Cairo, Egypt 1965; NDEA National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships, Harvard University 1966, Princeton University 1967; MA, Political Science, New York University 1967; PhD, Political Science, New York University 1970

Career: John Entelis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York where he teaches comparative political analysis and political economy of the Middle East. Since 1970 he has been on the Faculty of the Political Science Department at Fordham University where he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 1979 and where he has served as Assistant Chairman from 1972–74, as Chairman from 1981–84, as Director of the Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development from 1979–81, and as Director of the Middle East Studies Program since 1980. His research interests include political risk analysis, comparative politics, and the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Professor Entelis is a media commentator on ABC Network News, CBS Network News, MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour and CNN International. He has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad to university, government, business and community groups under the sponsorship of private, academic and governmental institutions. He is a member of Fellows of the Tangier American Legation Museum Society, the Editorial Board of the Rhodes Fulbright International Library, the Board of Directors of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, Academic Associate of the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Board of Advisory Editors of Middle East Affairs Journal, Associate Editor of Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, and an invited participant of several discussion groups of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Lehrman Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and others. He is co-editor of The Journal of North African Studies (see url below).

Honours and awards: several Fulbright awards including a US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to conduct research in Lebanon 1968–69, a Senior Fulbright Professorship at the University of Algiers in 1977–78, and one at the University of Tunis in 1985, Fulbright Regional Research Award to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia 1989

Publications include: author or co-author: Pluralism and Party Transformation in Lebanon 1974, Comparative Politics of North Africa 1980, 1984, The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa 1980, 1986, 1995, 2002, 2006, Political Elites in Arab North Africa 1982, Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized 1986, Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics 1989, 1996, State and Society in Algeria 1992, Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa 1997; numerous articles and book reviews in scholarly journals in the fields of political science, international relations, Middle Eastern affairs and North African studies.

Contact details: Address: Middles East Studies Program, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023, USA; Tel: +1 212-636-6390; Fax: +1 212-636-7153; Email: entelis@fordham.edu ; Email: john.entelis@islam-democracy.org ; Website: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/middle_east_studies_1658.asp/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13629387.asp/ .