As’ad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley. He is the author of several books including
Bin Laden, Islam, and America’s New "War on Terrorism" and the
Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). His latest is
The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power and the forthcoming book
Saudi Arabia and The US: The Tale of the Good Taliban. He was born in Tyre, Lebanon, and grew up in Beirut. He runs a blog called "The Angry Arab News Service" at
angryarab.blogspot.com.