Gilbert Achcar is the author of many books and articles, including The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), and the forthcoming book, The People Want: A Radical Exploration or the Arab Uprising (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013). Achcar is a professor of development studies and international relations at the School or Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He grew up in Lebanon.