Richard Bulliet (U.S)Richard Bulliet is Professor of Middle East History at Columbia University and a former director of its Middle East Institute. He has written and edited a number of books about Muslim religious politics in both the contemporary world and earlier periods of Islamic history, including most recently The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, (2004), The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (ed., 1998), and The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (co-ed., 1996.) Frequently interviewed in both print and broadcast media, Professor Bulliet has also published commentaries in Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, and has served as a consultant on Islamic issues for Time Magazine. He is proficient in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and several European languages, and holds a Ph. D. from Harvard in History and Middle East Studies.
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