Mahmud Faksh

Professor of Political Science; American University of Beirut, B.A., 1965; University of Connecticut, Ph.D., 1973. Author of:  The Future of Islam in the Middle East:  Fundamentalism in Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia (1997).  Previously taught at the University of Connecticut, King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; served as Senior Research Associate in Islamic and Arabian Development Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Has published extensively on Middle East and Islamic affairs. Joined the University of Southern Maine in 1987.