Joshua Landis is Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is past-President of the Syrian Studies Association.

He was educated at Swarthmore (BA), Harvard (MA), and Princeton (PhD).

He writes “SyriaComment.com,” a daily newsletter on Syrian politics that attracts some 100,000 page-reads a month. He is a frequent analyst on TV and radio, appearing recently on the PBS News Hour, the Charlie Rose Show, NPR and the BBC.

He frequently publishes in journals such as Foreign Policy and Middle East Policy, speaks at Washington think tanks, and consults for the US government.

He has received three Fulbright grants, an SSRC and other prestigious grants to support his research.

He has lived four years in Syria and fourteen in
the Middle East.