Professor Hisham A (HA) Hellyer, a scholar of Arab world affairs, geopolitics, and religion, is senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (UK), Professorial Research Associate at the SOAS Middle East Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (USA). Appointed as Professor of Islamic Thought at Bayan College, where he teaches in coordination with the Chicago Theological Seminary, he was elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Society of Arts. He has held posts at Harvard University, Brookings, Carnegie, Warwick, and the American University in Cairo. Previously, he was fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre of Islamic Studies, Azzawia Institute’s first senior scholar, and Cambridge Muslim College’s first professorial fellow. A prolific media commentator on international media outlets, his ten books include Muslims of Europe: the ‘Other’ Europeans, A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt, and A Sublime Path: the Sufi Way of the Makkan Sages.